Fluendo
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Fluendo DVD Player is one of the first products that can be bought that allows legal/licensed DVD playback for Unix
/Linux
users (LinDVD
was/is only available in OEM installs). A version for OpenSolaris
was released in November 2009.
Features:
In October 2010 Fluendo DVD Player became the first application for sale in Ubuntu 10.10's Software Center
.
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
/Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
users (LinDVD
LinDVD
LinDVD from Corel is a commercial proprietary software for Linux for the playback of DVDs and other multimedia files. The latest version now supports ultra-mobile PCs and mobile internet devices , as well as a streaming media and a wider range of standard and high-definition video and audio...
was/is only available in OEM installs). A version for OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software...
was released in November 2009.
Features:
- Support for UbuntuUbuntu (operating system)Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
and DebianDebianDebian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential... - Full DVD Playback
- DVD Menu support
- Fullscreen support
- Dolby Digital pass-through
- Dolby Digital 5.1 output and stereo downmixing support
- Resume from last position support
- Subtitle support
- Audio selection support
- Multiple Angles support
- Support for encrypted discs
- Multiregion, works in all regions
- Multiple video deinterlacing algorithms
In October 2010 Fluendo DVD Player became the first application for sale in Ubuntu 10.10's Software Center
Ubuntu Software Center
Ubuntu Software Center is a computer program for browsing, installing and removing software on the Ubuntu operating system. Based upon the GNOME application, gnome-app-install, which is similar in function and appearance, it serves as a GTK+ graphical user interface front-end to the Advanced...
.
Fluendo Group
- From Fluendo projects, two new companies have been created with specific roles :
- Flumotion Services S.A.FlumotionFlumotion Services, S.A. is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming media platform to publish audio and video content via the internet...
is leveraging the Flumotion Streaming server (development started at Fluendo) as a service platformContent Delivery NetworkA content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....
but also as a softwareIndependent software vendorIndependent software vendor is a business term for companies specializing in making or selling software, designed for mass marketing or for niche markets...
. - Fluendo Embedded S.L. develops Moovida (formerly Elisa) open source media playerMedia playerMedia player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. While many media players can play both audio and video, others focus only on one media type or the other...
that is based on Banshee and GStreamerGStreamerGStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing...
.
- Flumotion Services S.A.
Projects sponsored by Fluendo
- GStreamerGStreamerGStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing...
, framework for multimedia application development. Fluendo developed the 0.10.x series which are widely used in today's Linux distributions. - PitiviPiTiViPiTiVi is a open source non-linear video editor developed by Collabora and contributors from the worldwide community. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. PiTiVi is designed to be intuitive video editing software that integrates well in the GNOME desktop...
, a non linear video editor for the Free SoftwareFree softwareFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
desktop. Fluendo hired the lead developer of that project for two years. - CortadoCortado (software)Cortado is a streaming Java applet for Ogg formats Vorbis, Theora and Kate, µ-law, MJPEG and Smoke , released under the GPL. With Cortado a webpage can be set up to download the applet on the fly in the background, providing embedded support for Ogg based media in Java-enabled web browsers without...
, an open source Java appletJava appletA Java applet is an applet delivered to users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine , or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets...
featuring a lightweight implementation of GStreamerGStreamerGStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing...
in JavaJava (programming language)Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
with royalty free codecs like TheoraTheoraTheora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container....
and VorbisVorbisVorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression...
. This applet allows content producers to use royalty free formats without worrying about the end user media player capabilities. - TheoraTheoraTheora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container....
, a royalty free codec. Fluendo funded the Xiph Foundation for enhancing and fixing Theora implementation so that it becomes usable for production environments. - TheoraTheoraTheora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container....
and VorbisVorbisVorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression...
RTPReal-time Transport ProtocolThe Real-time Transport Protocol defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used extensively in communication and entertainment systems that involve streaming media, such as telephony, video teleconference applications, television services and...
specifications. Streaming using royalty-free codecs with the RTP protocol was something the community needed. Fluendo funded that project. - MP3MP3MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
codec made available at no cost for Linux and Solaris desktop users. - PigmentPigment (software)Pigment is a 3D scene graph library designed to easily create rich application user interfaces. Pigment uses OpenGL for rendering, and supports OpenGL 1.2 to 2.1 and OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 plugins. Embedding of images and video utilizes GdkPixbuf and GStreamer, with fast video playback via hardware...
a 3D scene graph library designed to easily create rich application user interfaces. Pigment includes fully supported PythonPython (programming language)Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
bindings.