Fluendo announces playback/decode only support [LWN.net]

Fluendo announces playback/decode only support

Posted Jan 16, 2007 3:06 UTC (Tue) by undefined (guest, #40876)
In reply to: Fluendo announces Windows Media and MPEG codec support for Linux by drag
Parent article: Fluendo announces Windows Media and MPEG codec support for Linux

the premise of your entire post is based on the assumption that these fluendo plugins support encoding ("creation"). i couldn't find anything to substantiate that claim.

https://shop.fluendo.com/ says the "plugins will allow you to play and encode these popular formats" but i've read each and every plugin description (AC3, MPEG4, MPEG2, MMS, WMV, MP3) and not a single plugin claims to support encoding.

so though fluendo makes that generic claim, i can't find specific proof of it.

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Fluendo announces playback/decode only support

Posted Jan 16, 2007 3:43 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well if they don't then it's becuase they don't yet support encoding. It's just not finished.

It's definately one of their plans to support encoding. This is probably being limited by development in gstreamer by quite a bit, though.

This is the reason why they hired a developer to work on Pitivi, a NLE. They plan on supporting it as Free software while commercial users purchase codecs for it. It's something they've stated a couple times.

Maybe they changed their mind, but I still expect they would want to make money off of something like that.