Fluendo’s 5th anniversary

July 2nd, 2009

Today we celebrated 5 years of the Fluendo group around some French Wine & Cheese. Was quite impressive to make a speech in front of around 70 people explaining who we became in those 5 years, one of the biggest Internet traffic pusher in Spain with more than 22 Gbps of bandwidth, having GStreamer and our codecs spread in Linux devices all around us with famous customers like Dell, HP, Wyse, Dexxon, Guillemot, etc.. and having more than 6000 people a day installing our Moovida media center/player.

This day got even better when, by pure luck, Dolby gave us the green light to distribute the DVD player on this exact same day after one full year of certification and paperwork. So it’s my pleasure to announce that the Fluendo DVD player is finally available at http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-dvd-player/ .

A big thanks to everyone for being patient and supporting us along those years, it would not be the same without our beloved community. And now let’s see where we will be at in another 5 years !

PicLens distributing ffmpeg

July 26th, 2008

I was playing a bit with the PicLens Firefox extension today and I realized that they are basically shipping FFmpeg. There is a libs directory in their extension that contains avcodec-51.dll and looking at symbols of that dll clearly shows decoding functions for VP6, VP5, H.264 etc..

Is it me or startups nowadays just don’t care about patents and licensing at all when it comes to proprietary formats ?