Fluendo To Sell Proprietary Codecs For Linux

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."

*makes popcorn and pops open a beer*

[Anonymous Coward]

and settles back for a nice round of productive but gentlemanly discussion over the need for massive deployment of closed source modules in Linux.

Breaking news.......

[AlzaF]

finally porn has been ported to *nix.

Re:Hmmmmmmmmn,

[x2A]

OMG!!! They could have been the one's who put it there deliberately in the first place!!! We all know that nvidia works with the government... they've probably put backdoors in the chipsets too! Damn I gonna rip out my nvidia graphics cards and not put them in until I have personally verified each line of code, and every single transister on the chip schematics, and every single transistor and wire and line of code that controls the machines that make them... THEN I'll know I'm safe. It's a good job I have as much experience with GPU design as nvidia and ati, as that means I'll definitely find whatever's there.