Fluendo To Sell Proprietary Codecs For Linux

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @12:42AM from the free-as-in-not dept.

Several readers wrote in to tell us that the open source media software development company Fluendo has announced plans to sell native Linux implementations of proprietary video codecs such as Windows Media, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. (Press release here.) From the article: "Currently, many Linux video applications facilitate Windows Media video playback using Windows DLL files and Wine, which provides suboptimal performance, particularly with streaming video. Fluendo's codecs could potentially provide better integration for streaming Windows Media playback in Linux web browsers as well as through GStreamer-based desktop applications like Totem."

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Re:Hmmmmmmmmn, by Just+Some+Guy · 2007-01-16 02:56 · Score: 4, Interesting

So hundreds of developers (and being kernel hackers, probably paid) took a long time to find a file corruption bug that would presumably affect a lot of people. And somehow you think that NVidia's little graphics driver team should be able to magically resolve your problems overnight?

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Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?