Fluendo
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| Type | S.A. (corporation) |
| Founded | January 16, 2004 |
| Founder | Julien Moutte, Pascal Pegaz, Thomas Vander Stichele |
| Headquarters | World Trade Center Edificio Norte 2 Planta, Moll de Barcelona, 08039 Barcelona - Spain |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Julien Moutte, Pascal Pegaz, Thomas Vander Stichele |
| Industry | Software |
| Products | Fluendo codec packs, Fluendo DVD player, Flumotion streaming server, Cortado, Elisa Media Center |
| Services | Flumotion streaming platform |
| Revenue | $2m+ |
| Employees | 30 |
| Website | http://www.fluendo.com |
Fluendo S.A. is a private company founded by Julien Moutte, Pascal Pegaz and Thomas Vander Stichele based in Barcelona, Spain. Fluendo aims at improving the global multimedia experience in the Free Software world by funding, developing and maintaining the GStreamer media framework and providing a wide range of, both commercial and free, products on top of it.
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[edit] Fluendo GStreamer codec packs
Fluendo codecs are their flagship products. Providing a complete solution for proprietary media playback on operating systems using the GStreamer media framework such as GNU Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and embedded platforms.
- Fluendo codecs provide playback for formats such as :
Fluendo codecs are made available together with their respective patent licenses which means that these codecs are completely legal worldwide.
[edit] Fluendo Group
- From Fluendo projects, two new companies have been created with specific roles :
- Flumotion Services S.A. is leveraging the Flumotion Streaming server (development started at Fluendo) as a service platform but also as a software.
- Fluendo Embedded S.L. develops the Fluendo Media Center aka Elisa. Completely cross platform, open source and based on GStreamer and Python (programming language) this Media Center project aims at being an alternative to existing offerings on multiple operating systems.
[edit] Projects sponsored by Fluendo
- Pitivi, a non linear video editor for the Free Software desktop. Fluendo hired the lead developer of that project for two years.
- Cortado, an open source JAVA applet featuring a lightweight implementation of GStreamer in JAVA with royalty free codecs like Theora and Vorbis. This applet allows content producers to use royalty free formats without worrying about the end user media player capabilities.
- Theora, a royalty free codec. Fluendo funded the Xiph Foundation for enhancing and fixing Theora implementation so that it becomes usable for production environments.
- Theora and Vorbis RTP specifications. Streaming using royalty free codecs with the RTP protocol was something the community needed. Fluendo funded that project.
- MP3 codec made available at no cost for Linux desktop users.
