Fluendo makes proprietary codecs available to Linux users

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 16, 2007 10:40 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Ryan Paul
Mail this story
Print this story

In response to the growing demand for proprietary multimedia codecs on the open-source Linux platform, multimedia software development company Fluendo has released GStreamer codec plugins that provide native support for a variety of proprietary media formats. Available from Fluendo's web shop, several of the plugins facilitate encoding as well as playback. In order to provide these codecs without risking legal conflict, Fluendo has properly licensed the relevant patents on the various formats from their respective holders.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.