Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems

1. Introduction
   1.1. Project/Component Working Name:  Realplayer 11 for Solaris 
	
   1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Chris Wang, Jerry Tan  
	
   1.3. Date of This Document: 03/03/08
	
   1.5. Email Aliases:
    	1.5.1. Responsible Manager:   paul.mei@sun.com
    	1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:  chris.wang@sun.com,
                                    jerry.tan@sun.com  

2. Project Summary
   2.1. Project Description:
    RealPlayer retrieves audio, video, text, animation and other media to 
    your desktop by using modern streaming technology. The media files, or 
    clips, you play are specially created so that they are transfered to your 
    desktop in much smaller pieces that are ready to be used. Therefore you 
    do not have to wait for the whole video file to download before you begin
    to enjoy it. With RealPlayer, the video plays as your Player receives 
    the information.

    
4. Technical Description:
    4.1. Details:
  
    RealPlayer plays a wide variety of media both locally and over the 
    Internet.

    Filetype 	    Plays
    ----------------  -----------------------------------------------------
    RM, RPM, RA, RAM    RealAudio/RealVideo streamed content
    RT  	            Real Text streamed text formats
    RP  	            RealPix streamed GIF and JPG ('j-peg') images
    GIF, JPG 	      Stand alone JPG and GIF images
    SMIL, SMI 	      SMIL formatted (multiple datatype layout) files
    VIV, VIVO 	      Vivo video files
    AU                  'Legacy' sound files--older but prevalent file-types
    ASF 	            NetShow files (some)
    OGG		      Vorbis, Ogg, Theora Open Source streaming technology
    WAV                 Windows Raw audio format	
    AIFF                Apple's Raw audio format

    The included codecs are:
    
    o Theora (content must be encoded with Alpha3 or greater)
    o Vorbis/Ogg
    o Basic SMIL 2.0
    o H263
    o RealPix
    o RTSP streaming with RTP
    o HTTP streaming
    o RealText
    o RealEvents
    o RealAudio, RealVideo
    o Uncompressed audio (wav, au, aiff)
           
    This project includes the standalone player and the plugin that is 
    necessary for Firefox.  This version of RealPlayer is based upon
    the OpenSource Helix community project.

    Compare to the previous release of Realplayer 10, Realplayer 11 offers
    three new features, namely superbuffer, auto bandwidth detection and 
    playlist. The supperbuffer feature allow pausing of live streams; 
    Auto bandwidth detection ensures better streaming experience; and
    playlist feature enable the user to create and play the playlist.
        
    4.5. Interfaces:
	
  Exported interfaces:
    
  Interface                             Stability              Comment        
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  SUNWrealplayer                        Committed     SVr4 package  
                                                        Defined in LSARC2005/701
  /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so   Private         browser plugin      
                                                        Defined in LSARC2005/701
  plugin GUI			          Volatile        plugin's GUI  
                                                        Defined in LSARC2005/701
  realplay GUI                          Volatile        realplay standalone 
                                                        application
                                                        Defined in LSARC2005/701
  Media Types                           Volatile        various media types
                                                        see 4.1 
                                                        Defined in LSARC2005/701
  /usr/lib/RealPlay                     Uncommitted     realplayer private
                                                        directory 
                                                        Defined in LSARC2005/701
  $HOME/.config/real/realplayerrc       Private         various data files
                                                        for realplayer    
                                                        previously in $HOME/.realplayerrc
                                                        relocate to comfort with gnome standard  
  application mime-types	          Volatile        see [5.2] for list 
                                                        Defined in LSARC2005/701

   Imported Interfaces 
   Interface                             Stability         Comments 
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
   Realplayer plugin and reader 
   integration into Solaris             Uncomitted     LSARC/2005/701
   GNOME Committed Platform Libraries   Committed      LSARC/2007/520 
                                                       GTK+ library
                                                      
   /usr/lib/firefox/plugins             Committed      upgraded from
                                                       LSARC/2008/158
     
 
    4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:
	 The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluate and
       provide I18N/L10N support 

    4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
         The project will be delivering the following packages:
         SUNWrealplay 
	
    4.11. Security Impact:
	 The JDS team and Real work together to identify and fix any security
       issues found.  Real provides us with security patches for issues they have
       identified.
    
       
5. Reference Documents:
 	Unless otherwise stated, path names are relative to the case directory
    
       
    1. SUNWrealplayer SVr4 packaging information
    
    	./material/pkgmap
	./materials/pkginfo
	./materials/depend
	    	
    2. application mime-types
    
        ./materials/mime-types
    
    3. Helix community
    
      http://www.helixcommunity.org/