Linspire, Inc. developer of CNR.com, an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux software, and Fluendo S.A., a company specialized in delivering products and services on Unix and Linux multimedia platforms, announced a partnership that will bring legal multimedia software to desktop Linux users worldwide.
Immediately available and one-click accessible through CNR.com's easy-to-use software delivery service, Fluendo's multimedia software products are now available to Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 users and will soon expand to additional popular Linux distributions. Commercial multimedia software codecs in desktop Linux operating systems have been very limited in the past as popular free Linux distributions do not bundle proprietary offerings due to their inherent licensing fees.
"The Fluendo partnership offers desktop Linux users additional multimedia options which they can easily install with one click of the mouse through CNR.com," commented Larry Kettler, Linspire President and CEO. "CNR.com provides a valuable marketplace where users can choose what software they want, both free and commercial, and quickly install it on their systems."
Providing a legal option to desktop Linux users, Fluendo multimedia software offerings allow users to play movies using the MPEG 4 part 2 codec, MP3 audio tracks and MPEG2 video files as well as get access to the latest networking protocols and the popular Windows Media format to open Windows Media clips. Each Fluendo software product comes with a free one-year upgrade so users receive all the performance improvements and new codecs added to the bundles during that 12 month period. In addition, after 12 months each user has the option to purchase a yearly support contract that will keep them up to date with the latest software and decoding capabilities.
Pascal Pegaz Paquet, Fluendo Co-Founder, noted, "Fluendo software options combined with the ease of CNR's one-click installation, provides a very simple and straightforward way to enjoy a great multimedia experience on your GNU/Linux operating system. We are proud to finally reach our goal by providing an easy to use, 100% legal and fully functional solution to the multimedia issue in the free software environment."
Fluendo GStreamer plugins for GStreamer 0.10.3 and later.
- Windows Media Audio Decoder
- Windows Media Video Decoder
- Windows Media ASF Demuxer
- Windows Media MMS Networking MPEG2
- Video Decoder MPEG4
- Video Decoder MPEG2 Program Stream and Transport Stream demuxer
- MPEG4 ISO Demuxer
- MP3 Audio Decoder
- AC3 Audio Decoder
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