Helix Universal Server
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The Helix Universal Media Server was a product developed by RealNetworks and originates from the first[citation needed] streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994. It supported a variety of streaming media delivery transports including MPEG-DASH (Standards based HTTP streaming) RTMP (flash), RTSP (standard), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Silverlight and HTTP Progressive Download enabling mobile phone OS (Android, Blackberry, iOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile) and PC OS media client (Flash Media Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player) delivery.
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Developer(s) | RealNetworks |
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Stable release | 15.2.1
/ September 16, 2014 |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows 2008 (64 bit), Microsoft Windows 2012 (64 bit)Linux RHEL and CentOS versions 5 and 6 (64 bit), Oracle Linux 6, Solaris SPARC 10 (64 bit) |
Type | Carrier and Enterprise Class Server |
License | Proprietary |
Website | http://www.realnetworks.com/products-services/helix.aspx |
Helix Universal Media Server supported multiple streaming media codecs including H.264, MPEG-4, Flash Media, RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media and audio codecs including AAC/AAC+, MP4, MP3, WAV, RealAudio. It ingested encoder formats including RTP, MPEG2-TS, RTMP (Flash) and Windows Media Push/Pull MMS.
Development of the product was discontinued in 2014, and licensing ended in October 2014.[1]