14 DAY TRIAL // Fluendo has added a wide range of codecs for GNU/Linux and Solaris to its list of products. These codecs are meant to be plugged directly into the popular and widely used Gstreamer multimedia framework, which is also available for both GNU/Linux and Solaris desktop and server systems.
Until now, GNU/Linux and Solaris users couldn't legally license and use popular media formats such as Windows Media, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 in accordance with the laws of their countries. Fortunately, the Fluendo's agreements with Microsoft and MPEG LA now offer a solution to this problem.
To enable support for these codecs in multimedia applications, Fluendo's new plug-ins are closely integrated into GStreamer, enabling applications such as Totem Video Player, Rhythmbox music player, Banshee music player, Elisa Media Center and the Jokosher sound editor to manage files encoded with those codecs.
More exactly, the new Fluendo plug-ins will be able to handle Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video, Windows Media MMS streaming protocol handling, MPEG-2 video decoding, MPEG-4 Part 2 video decoding, ASF container format demuxing, MPEG-2 Program and Transport Stream container format demuxing, MPEG-4 ISO container format demuxing and MP3 audio. Further codecs are planned for release in the course of 2007.
"We are very happy to be able to provide the GNU/Linux and Solaris communities with this set of multimedia codecs. We have had these codecs in development for quite some time, to ensure they are of the highest quality possible and that all legal aspects are properly covered. By offering this drop-in solution we hope to increase the competitiveness of the GNU/Linux and Solaris platforms.", says Fluendo co-founder, Pascal Pegaz.
Fluendo is a company specialized in delivering products and consulting services on Unix and Linux multimedia. Its flagship product is the streaming media server, Flumotion. Fluendo also supports the development of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is emerging as the standard media framework on Unix and Linux platforms.