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Fluendo
Company blog · fluendo.com/en/blogprogrammingsystems
Fluendo is the company blog at fluendo.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fluendo's site for multimedia codec licensing and open-source topics, such as H.264 patent licensing, WebM and the difference between GPL and LGPL. Most comments point to its product shop.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Fluendo is a multimedia company driven by top multimedia experts. We create smart multimedia solutions for any framework to make your video pipelines shine.
Most-linked posts?
- /shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-26
What Hacker News says?
Of course. I'll even quote the article: > H.264 is a patent-encumbered codec; the MPEG LA organization requires developers who implement it to agree to a patent license. This license is fundamentally incompatible with software freedom. It requires developers to restrict how their software can be used, and to collect royalties in many situations. While the wording is not perfect, this is actually about end user freed…
Comment linking /shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/
on “No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM ”Submitted Collabora and Fluendo Invest in GStreamer Open Source Multimedia Framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can actually get a licensed codec for Linux, if you're willing to pay for it, like the Fluendo[1]. Personally, I just use x264. Fuck MPEG-LA. [1]: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback...
Comment linking /shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/
on “H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows”Submitted Understanding DLL injection in Windows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnfortunately all you have right now is the fairly expensive Fluendo codec pack: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback...
Comment linking /shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/
on “MPEGLA will not ever charge H264 royalties for free internet video - due to VP8?”LGPL doesn’t require them to license their project under GPL, it’s more permissive than you seem to think: https://fluendo.com/en/blog/gpl-vs-lgpl/
Comment linking /en/blog/gpl-vs-lgpl/
on “Ask HN: How to choose the desktop platform and tech for desktop app development?”There are a number in the multimedia space: There is x264 LLC which dual-licenses the x264 encoder and pays back royalties to developers. - http://x264licensing.com/ I run Open Broadcast Systems which is a "corporate face" of the Open Broadcast Encoder, an open source broadcast television encoder designed to replace $40k+ hardware broadcast encoders. - http://www.ob-encoder.com/ There is also Anevia, which is sort o…
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on “What are the Open Source startups?”
