Some news about what’s going on at Fluendo
This week we released the Fluendo DVD player version 1.0.9, expanding our cross platform support with Microsoft Windows. We now have full support for Linux, OpenSolaris and all flavors of Windows from XP and up.
We also released the Fluendo Media Center which is an all in one product containing our media center UI from the Moovida project combined with Fluendo codecs (including Dolby Digital) and the Fluendo DVD player engine. We currently only support Linux but we will add Windows support next week.
Next week you will also see a new release of the Fluendo codecs bundle (version 11) that will feature VDPAU hardware decoding support (tested on NVidia cards, including ION and some VIA chipsets) plus the long awaited return of the excellent Dolby Digital decoder for Totem.
Development on Moovida 2.0 is going pretty well and expect some nice release from us in the course of April 2010.
Thanks for reading ! 
March 16th, 2010 at 12:10
Any work on the banshee front?
March 16th, 2010 at 12:12
I realise I’m probably not the first to ask but is Blu Ray support ever going to be on the cards? I don’t mean “Well we’re considering it” I mean are you actually working on getting it done?
March 16th, 2010 at 12:49
Now if it only had DVB support (like MythTV)!
March 16th, 2010 at 14:09
Tried out the windows version today on my work system…a very nice simple DVD Player for Windows. Now I can Fluendo at home and work
March 16th, 2010 at 14:47
Woot! So how well does it perform on something like an ION netbook when doing H264 video?
March 16th, 2010 at 15:01
That’s pretty cool. Any chances to get something in terms of BlueRay? I know there is lots of annoying things with HDMI and certification of components, etc. but maybe it’s possible.
March 16th, 2010 at 15:06
Very impressive job, I’m following the media center projects for years, it really evolved a lot! And about the new all-in-one Media Center, I’m not really that much interested to buy a DVD player as a linux user (there are some alternatives), but here is what I would be ok to spend some money on: a support for Bluray, with the hardware decoding support of course. I don’t know if you have a lot of requests on that, but that’s REALLY missing on Linux…
March 16th, 2010 at 18:32
@antimonio : Shhhtt it’s a S3Cr3t
! I’ll turn in to a mono pretty soon…
@Darren Albers : well basically you would see Totem decoding full HD at 5% CPU load. Yes… it rocks
We are also working on adding subtitles support that’s a bit harder but deinterlacing is already there.
@Johannes : Bluray requires secure video channel to HDCP display, that requires coordinating with many people and to be honest we haven’t started coding, we are bringing all the actors around the table to find solution on how to implement it. We have a lot of the bricks done though.
March 16th, 2010 at 20:05
To what extent will Moovida 2.0 be open source? Is it going to rely on some closed software?
I was thinking about starting to use Moovida 1.0 but if I’m not going to be able to use 2.0 I might as well stick with MythTV.
March 16th, 2010 at 20:25
The reason I ask is this mail: http://lists.moovida.com/pipermail/developers-list/2010-March/001807.html . If 2.0 is not going to have the at least the same functionality available as 1.0 I will probably not be interested.
Moovida 1.0 takes a really nice “everything just works ™” approach to everything compared to the other open source media centres out there. I will be sad if I can’t use 2.0.
March 16th, 2010 at 21:57
Developing Moovida 2.0 in a close source style does not say much of a free software company, specially after such a traumatic development for 1.0 due to the lack of clear direction.
Proprietary codecs gives you a perfect excuse to make your software not free and to develop it closed doors.
You should pay for this kind of advertisement of non-free software on a free software project planet.
March 17th, 2010 at 0:19
@John: the reason why we are developing our new plan for moovida 2.0 behind “closed doors” has nothing to do with proprietary codecs. We have new ideas and new competitors and we want to make sure that we put all the chances of success on our side before letting everyone know what we are doing. You might disagree with that approach but so far that’s what I have to offer.
@Martin: we obviously want to do more than we did for 1.0 in 2.0. More in terms of UI and more in terms of features. The software will be free software while still trying to give a competitive advantage to Fluendo.
March 17th, 2010 at 1:08
It would be nice to support VAAPI instead of or in addition to VDPAU. Supporting VAAPI would imply support for VDPAU (via the vdpau-video bridge) and would also add support for ATI cards (using the xvba-video bridge) and Intel GMA 500 (Poulsbo) adapters (which have a direct VAAPI driver), plus anything else that supports VAAPI in future.
March 17th, 2010 at 11:58
@Adam Williamson : We also support VAAPI and the codec bundle 11 will have it in the package for the LPIA architecture, i386 and x86_64 will have VDPAU support. We will try to ship both on all platforms but we need to investigate that further.