Re: commercial codecs for Linux/Gstreamer

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Damien Hull wrote:

> http://www.fluendo.com/content.php
>
> This company has commercial Windows, mpeg2 and mpeg4 codecs. I didn't
> see a price on the site. Don't know anything else but I thought I would
> pass it along.

open source WMV: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
open source MPEG4: http://www.xvid.org/
open source MPEG2: http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG/

From the press release it looks like all that Fluendo is offering are codec
plugins for the gstreamer framework. If I were a betting man I'd bet that
Fluendo is just rewrapping the OSS codecs in a plugin for gstreamer, for
which there are other packages already available.

Much ado about nothing, unless I'm missing some value-add. I don't see any
mention of them being able to handle the DRM-crippled variants, for
instance.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:54:02 -0800 (AKDT)