Bastian, Waldo wrote:
Wrt media codecs: Fluendo is offering free (beer) patent-licensed codecs
for gstreamer. Mostly free as in speech as well, the source for the MP3
codec is available under the MIT license, but there are some
restrictions due to the patent license.
See http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2005-05.html and
http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=333
You mention, Dan, that "RealPlayer" comes with license to play
mpeg". I would just clear that up a bit. There is no need, as I
understand it, to have a RealPlayer installed to get that. All of
the core components (media engine, codecs, plugins, etc) are in
the open source Helix Community
(https://helixcommunity.org). There are many other codecs there
as well besides MPEG. Novell built a Banshee engine using
Helix. You might remember them talking about it at the last LDA
meeting in Portland.
Although I don't know how the licensing is going to go, we are
currently adding Window's Media support into Helix as well as
part of the new platform:
https://helix-client.helixcommunity.org/2005/devdocs/windowsMedia.html
It may require a player download to use, but we will see. At
least it will be cross platform (minus Window's DRM).
--greg.
(Disclaimer, I work for Real doing Helix)
Printing: HP aims to offer open source drivers for all (most?) of its
new printers via hplip, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet
Year of Desktop linux: Based on those signs I have good hopes for 2007
;-) There is also an increasing number of sightings of pre-installed
Linux notebooks.
Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
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Subject: [Desktop_architects] Desktop linux talk slides
Hi all,
I'm giving talks about Desktop Linux and Wine this weekend.
A draft of the slides are up at
http://kegel.com/linux/scale4/ and
http://kegel.com/wine/scale4/
Comments welcome... there's still time to fix 'em.
Thanks,
Dan
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Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
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