Fluendo

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name = Fluendo
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company_type = S.A. (corporation)
foundation = January 16, 2004
founder = Julien Moutte, Pascal Pegaz, Thomas Vander Stichele
location = World Trade Center Edificio Norte 2 Planta, Moll de Barcelona, 08039 Barcelona - Spain
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key_people = Julien Moutte, Pascal Pegaz, Thomas Vander Stichele
area_served = Worldwide
industry = Software
products = Fluendo codec packs, Fluendo DVD player, Flumotion streaming server, Cortado, Elisa Media Center
services = Flumotion streaming platform
revenue = $2m+
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num_employees = 30
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homepage = http://www.fluendo.com
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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.

Fluendo GStreamer codec packs

Fluendo's codecs are their flagship products. They aim to provide a complete solution for playback of proprietary media formats on computing platforms using the GStreamer media framework such as Linux and other Unix-like systems. [ cite web | title = Presentation| url = http://www.fluendo.com/presentation.php ]

* Fluendo codecs provide playback for formats such as :
** Windows Media Video
** Windows Media Audio
** H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video
** Advanced Audio Coding
** MP3 Audio
** MPEG-2 Video
** MPEG4 Part 2 Video (DivX)
** AC3 Audio downmixing

Fluendo codecs are made available together with their respective patent licenses which means that these codecs are completely legal worldwide. They are currently being sold at Canonical Ltd. store [https://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=19&osCsid=e827ca15857ef50256d2a218b2cd2d24]

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.

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.
* Pigment a 3D scene graph library designed to easily create rich application user interfaces. Pigment includes fully-supported Python bindings.

References

External links

* [http://www.fluendo.com/ Fluendo site]