The only plugins that Fluendo offers that are not available for Solaris
are the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 plugins. These have not yet been ported to
solaris because the Linux versions depend on the IPP (Intel Performance
Primitives) library which is not available for Solaris.
It will be a significant porting effort to port these two plugins to
Solaris (perhaps using mediaLib), so Fluendo is waiting to see how well
the sales go for the existing (e.g. WindowMedia audio and video WMA/WMV)
plugins before they invest effort in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
However, I am aware that the mediaLib team already has MPEG-2 and MPEG-4
codecs written for Solaris using mediaLib and I am currently working
to coordinate discussion between Fluendo and mediaLib to see if Fluendo
could more simply just resell the mediaLib codecs that we wrote. If so,
this probably will allow them to become available more quickly.
So if you have an interest in great media on Solaris, please consider
buying their Solaris plugins and show them our support.
Note that Sun is not directly involved with Fluendo specific plugins,
though Sun does support Fluendo by providing them with hardware so they
can build their plugins on Solaris platforms (x86 and Sparc).
That said, Fluendo plugins are based on the GStreamer free media
streaming engine, and Sun employees are involved with making GStreamer
work on Solaris.
I hope this answers your questions.
Brian
For people interested in playing video's on
Solaris,
this announcement might be interesting -
http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2007-01.html
Thanks, but why aren't all the plugins available
for
Solaris?
Don't know actually. Probably best to ask fluendo
that question. I would probably suggest that they
haven't yet completed the Solaris port (sparc & x86)
for the missing plugins.
Doug
According to Stephen Harpster's Weblog, fluendo is under active development by
Sun's Beijing team:
. . . <snip>
One of my favorite things about visiting Beijing is getting demos of all the
projects. I always know what projects are under development, but to actually
see a prototype or working demo is really exciting. Of course better
performance and more eye-candy is always rolling out, but some exciting new
features that are coming out include:
. . . <snip>
Better multimedia support: newer Flash, newer Real Player, Fluendo, and Evince, which should resolve the problem of Adobe not wanting to port acroread to Solaris x64.
. . . "
http://blogs.sun.com/harpster/entry/improving_the_developer_desktop
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