Fluendo

Fluendo is happy to announce a cost free MP3 plugin for the GStreamer framework. This plugin will allow both users and distributors to get out of the box MP3 support together with GStreamer using applications. You can read more about it in the Fluendo press release and on the Fluendo MP3 page. The source code is avaialable under the MIT license, while the binaries are available under a cost free commerical license through our webshop and soon many of your favourite distributions. This plugin is for the newly released GStreamer 0.10 version.

Also in related news we are hiring developers for our new french subsidiary located in the beautiful city of Lyon, to work on our media center/multimedia box solution. Be sure to send Lionel a mail if you are interested in working with us.

Thought the community be happy to know that Fluendo announced today that we are sponsoring Xiph.org so they can complete their work on RTP protocol specifications for the Vorbis audio codec and Theora video codec. This will
increase the reach of these royalty free formats into areas where RTP is a much more appropriate streaming protocol than http for instance. We have a a press release out with quotes from Monty, Ralph and Phil of Xiph.org.

Fluendo has unveiled the first version of its streaming media server called Flumotion. This streaming media server is the same that was used to stream GUADEC in Kristiansand this year and also the Akademy KDE conference in Stuttgart. The server supports streaming in Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Speex in addition to archiving your streams to disk.
You configure through an easy to use GTK+ based wizard and there is also a GTK+ based administration interface for the server. This is a first alpha release so there are some rough spots here and there, but you should be able to get the basic system up and streaming relativly easy. You find more information on the Fluendo homepage. Click on Download to grab the tarball. There is also a issue tracker available from the 'Resources' page where you can see current known issues and report your own.

OSNews features an interview with the CEO and co-founder of Fluendo, Julien Moutte, discussing their upcoming products, including a legal DVD player for Unix and services based on Ogg/Theora. Also, check the live camera at Fluendo's offices, served by their own engine, using a Java port of Ogg Theora.

Are you one of the many who wanted to be at this years GUADEC, but couldn't for some reason or the other?
Well the chance is still there if you are prepared to go virtually. Thanks to the effort of Fluendo we have all the talks available both as live streams and as archived videofiles using the free Ogg Theora video format.
You find information on what streams and files are available on the GUADEC streaming website.

Fluendo officially launched today toghether with an announcement that Fluendo is sponsoring the continued development of the Theora bitstream specification in order to make sure there is a competitive royalty free video format available. Fluendo will build server and client applications using the GStreamer platform and is looking forward to working with the community around GStreamer to create a world class platform for Linux and Unix multimedia. You find the press release on Fluendo's website, including quotes from Fluendo CEO Julien Moutte and Xiph.org's Chris 'Monty' Montgomery.