Fluendo's investments in GStreamer lead to increased adoption

Fluendo's investments in GStreamer lead to increased adoption

Fluendo-sponsored technologies see increased adoption by major Linux
vendors such as Novell, Red Hat, Sun and Ubuntu

   April 7, 2005 - Barcelona, Spain
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GNU/Linux and UNIX multimedia specialist Fluendo announced today that
its investments in improving the GStreamer multimedia framework have
paid off in the form of widespread market adoption. The GNOME
development team officially included the Totem media player for their
recent 2.10 release based on the GStreamer multimedia framework. This in
turn has led to major Linux distribution vendors such as Red Hat,
Novell, Sun and Ubuntu including GStreamer and Totem in their current or
upcoming release.

Fluendo has invested in various areas to make this happen, ranging from
sponsorship of Xiph.org, developers of the Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora
open and royalty-free audio and video codecs, to direct development work
on GStreamer and the Totem media player. These investments have lead to
today's situation of having both high-quality free media formats
available, as well as a full stack of multimedia software under the
developer-friendly LGPL license.

"Fluendo's work on GStreamer, in addition to that of the community, has
pushed multimedia on the GNU/Linux desktop forward, and made it possible
to integrate Totem as an official part of the GNOME Desktop. Their
efforts have been substantial, and building multimedia applications just
became easier", says Totem maintainer Bastien Nocera.

"Thanks to the work that Fluendo has been doing, we are now able to ship
high-quality software such as Totem and Flumotion in Ubuntu. Good
solutions for showcasing free codecs are essential for these
technologies to reach critical mass and widespread adoption", says
Ubuntu guru Jeff Waugh.

"It is very nice to see our confidence and investment in the GStreamer
framework result in such widespread adoption. These deployments of
GStreamer will be a major enabler for us for our upcoming products",
Fluendo CEO Julien Moutte says. "With Totem so widely available, users
can easily buy plug-ins for encumbered formats such as Windows Media
from our upcoming webstore to enable Windows Media playback in Totem."

Fluendo has worked non-stop on improving the quality of GStreamer for
handling various media formats and protocols over the last year. People
all over the world can now enjoy almost all their media in the full
range of GStreamer-based applications, using either freely available
formats and plug-ins, or the upcoming range of Fluendo GStreamer plug-
ins.

GStreamer

The GStreamer framework is the leading multimedia framework on Linux and
UNIX systems. It is being deployed both as part of the GNOME desktop,
shipped by vendors such as Red Hat, Novell, Sun and Canonical, and as
part of server-side products such as the Flumotion Streaming Server by
Fluendo.

GStreamer's popularity comes from its modular and clean design, allowing
it to be used for everything ranging from small handheld devices over
full-fledged desktop solutions to back-end media processing and delivery
systems.

Fluendo S.L.

Fluendo is a company specialized in delivering products and consulting
services focusing on UNIX and GNU/Linux multimedia. Fluendo employs
several of the central developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework,
which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia
framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems.

Fluendo's flagship product is the streaming media server, Flumotion,
blessed with a unique and powerful distributed design. Fluendo comes out
ahead by combining best-of-breed systems from the Open Source world with
a strong team of highly knowledgeable software engineers and a
management team with a lot of streaming media expertise.

For more information

For more information on Fluendo, visit the website at
[1]http://www.fluendo.com/ or mail <[2]info@fluendo.com>

 For more information on GStreamer, [3]http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

References

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   1. http://www.fluendo.com/
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   3. http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/