Collabora and Fluendo announce GStreamer partnership

Collabora and Fluendo Invest in GStreamer Open Source Multimedia Framework

Two of the leading corporations with significant investments in the GStreamer project are joining
forces to help promote the commercial adoption of GStreamer.

February 24, 2012 -- Collabora Ltd. and Fluendo S.A., two world leaders in open source multimedia,
will invest in promoting the GStreamer multimedia framework through the creation of a cross
platform software development kit (SDK), targeting desktop and server platforms like Linux, Windows
and Mac OS X, and very soon to include leading mobile platforms, such as Android.

For 2012, the objective of the partnership between Fluendo and Collabora is to ease GStreamer
adoption by providing a full-featured, well tested and high quality multimedia sub-system for
desktop, server and embedded systems.

ISV and software developers will be able to target the SDK as a unified platform with their product
offerings. This open platform will serve as a reliable tool to certify GStreamer products. In this
context, Fluendo plans to offer their high quality suite of commercial audio and video codecs for
the SDK and Collabora will offer their consulting services and high level IP conferencing and video
editing components. This will be a first step towards creating a rich ecosystem where other
companies will be welcome to join and provide even more options.

The GStreamer SDK will offer a completely new way to get started with GStreamer. Developers will be
able to depend on the tested and certified SDK, knowing that their application will work across all
supported operating systems and architectures, instead of dealing with the intricacies of
assembling, testing and building media engines across multiple platforms themselves. 

Collabora and Fluendo aim to create a common space where GStreamer stakeholders can communicate the
advantages of the framework efficiently, while providing technical documentation supported by
GStreamer professionals. Bolstering the GStreamer multimedia framework will ensure that GStreamer
remains the world's premier open source multimedia framework.

Future plans to add various thriving mobile and embedded platforms will include a GStreamer SDK
supporting a myriad of use cases, such as set-top boxes, in vehicle entertainment, and mobile
devices, among others.

"At Collabora we've worked with developers across a wide range of operating systems and target
markets, and often the projects have required different portability and QA work depending on the
use cases. We're joining forces with Fluendo to make this a thing of the past and release a
GStreamer SDK that allows developers to start quickly and focus on their product development,
whatever the platform or application.”, said Collabora CTO and co-founder Rob McQueen. "I'm very
excited to see GStreamer available to an even wider audience and the applications that can be built
with it's power and flexibility."

“Since its foundation in 2004, Fluendo has strongly invested to improve and ease the adoption of
GStreamer. Today, the market has proven that Fluendo’s initial standpoint went on the right
direction, and the time has come for us to renew our commitment. In this context, we are very
excited to enter into a new investment phase, shared with Collabora. We are convinced that this
partnership will help GStreamer continue to be a success, both from a technical and a commercial
perspective" said Julien Moutte, Fluendo CTO and co-founder.

"In the GStreamer community we have always prided ourselves on making an effort to make GStreamer a
great choice for both commercial and open source developers alike and we are happy to see this
effort by GStreamer backers Collabora and Fluendo to help accelerate adoption further." said Wim
Taymans, GStreamer maintainer. 

Anyone attending Mobile World Congress 2012 who would like to meet the Fluendo and Collabora team
is welcome to send an email to contact@fluendo.com .


About GStreamer

GStreamer is an advanced open source multimedia framework used in a wide range of operating systems
and devices. The GStreamer project aims at providing a modern and modular system suitable for any
major multimedia product. GStreamer is already the de-facto multimedia platform for Linux based
operating systems and with the upcoming GStreamer 1.0 release series the power of GStreamer will
become available to an even wider audience.

About Collabora

Headquartered in Cambridge, UK with a network of developers worldwide, Collabora Ltd. is a software
consultancy specializing in delivering the benefits of open source to the commercial world.
Collabora combines years of open source software expertise with hard-won experience from working in
the mobile and consumer electronics industries. They help clients effectively take open source
technologies from the community to real-world consumers, re-using existing components to reduce
time to market and focus on product differentiation.

For more information regarding Collabora, please visit http://www.collabora.com

About Fluendo

Founded in 2004 in Barcelona, Fluendo specializes in software development and consulting services
to enable multimedia on multiple devices and operating systems. Fluendo employs several of the
central developers of GStreamer, an Open Source framework which is quickly establishing itself as
the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provides a wide
range of products under and above GStreamer, including proprietary codecs (together with their
respective patent licenses), a streaming server, the Fluendo DVD Player, and Moovida Pro. Fluendo
develops multimedia software to offer cross-platform and open source-based multimedia solutions for
computer devices and consumer electronics, always aiming at proposing an innovative perspective of
entertainment.

For more information regarding Fluendo, please visit www.fluendo.com


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