Fluendo, the leading multimedia software development company and GStreamer expert, will be a speaker at the GStreamer Conference for the second year in a row to talk about Time Shifting with GStreamer.

Barcelona, Catalonia -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/28/2011 -- The Time Shifting Element developed by Fluendo provides home entertainment devices with an improved user experience. This element is intended to give the freedom to seek back in live streams at any time and without the need of previously recording

Being an active part in the development of multimedia software based on open source technologies, and also as one of the most important contributors to GStreamer, the most important open source multimedia framework, Fluendo decided to develop an open source element that soon will be made available for the community.

"With the Time Shifting element, Fluendo offers Home Entertainment Systems an improved user experience. Since GStreamer provides an excellent and powerful framework allowing to make these developments, we have taken the opportunity to talk about this project and participate with the community at this conference held in Prague", said Muriel Paumier-Moscardini, CEO of Fluendo. "We will also be present at the LinuxCon Europe to share about latest open source and Linux trends with some of the most important actors in the tech industry", she concluded.

Technical staff and Fluendo management will be presenting the Time Shifting element and sharing latest Linux developments at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague, from Monday October the 24th until Friday October the 28th.

Fluendo, Influencing the Multimedia World.

About Fluendo
Founded in 2004 in Barcelona, Fluendo specializes in software development and consulting services to enable multimedia on multiple devices and operating systems. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of GStreamer, an Open Source framework which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provides a wide range of products under and above GStreamer, including proprietary codecs (together with their respective patent licenses), a streaming server, the Fluendo DVD Player, and Moovida Pro. Fluendo develops multimedia software to offer cross-platform and open source-based multimedia solutions to computer devices and consumer electronics, always aiming at proposing an innovative perspective of entertainment.

For more information regarding Fluendo and GStreamer framework, please visit fluendo.com
For general inquiries, write an email to contact@fluendo.com
Marketing and Press contact: marcom@fluendo.com

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Barcelona, Catalonia -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/29/2011 -- Fluendo, the Barcelona-based leading multimedia software development company with a broad experience in developing, commercializing and providing solutions to enable digital media consumption, today announced the release of Codec Pack 15, which contains Hardware Accelerated video decoders for AMD.

One of the most outstanding features of the Fluendo Codec Pack Release 15 is the support for AMD GPUs through the XvBA using OpenGL for efficient video rendering. These improvements are consistent with Fluendo's strategy of enabling quality multimedia on an increasingly wider variety of platforms and devices.

"By providing Hardware Acceleration through XvBA, Fluendo codecs now span the complete range of GPU's that can benefit from Hardware Accelerated video decoding", commented Muriel Paumier-Moscardini, CEO of Fluendo. "In previous releases, we had added support for VDPAU (Nvidia) and VAAPI (Intel), and we were looking forward to taking the following step, which was arming AMD GPU's with Full HD capabilities. This is excellent news for Fluendo, and we are proud that our software is enabling high quality multimedia on AMD platforms, themselves providing a high level of performance", she concluded.

By taking this step, Fluendo's has demonstrated that both their reference framework (GStreamer) and the plugins they develop are adaptable and efficient in different environments and circumstances. Fluendo products are today used by most OEMs for devices such as Desktops, Laptops, Thin Clients, Tablets, Digital Signage, Set-Top Boxes, Connected TV, Media Centers. Also, Fluendo solutions have been adopted by famous companies using Linux internally, to provide their employees with high quality multimedia capabilities, in compliance with patent licenses, and enabling the legal use of these formats on Linux OS.

Fluendo Codec Pack release 15 also adds support to Totem/playbin2 playback in recent distributions, which contains some GStreamer regressions preventing hardware accelerated video playback. Some other improvements in this release include faster seeking support for HTTP streams on ASF demuxer, support for deinterlacing with H264/AVC, and several improvements in AAC and MPEG2 performance. The Fluendo Codec Pack release 15 is available at www.fluendo.com/ shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/.

Fluendo is developing state of the art solutions to enable legal playback of music and videos on different operating systems and devices. More news on the availability of other Fluendo multimedia solutions will be featured on the Fluendo website at http://www.fluendo.com.

About Fluendo
Founded in 2004 in Barcelona, Fluendo specializes in software development and consulting services. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of GStreamer, an Open Source framework which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provides a wide range of products under and above GStreamer, including proprietary codecs (together with their respective patent licenses), a streaming server, the Fluendo DVD Player, the Fluendo Media Center, and Moovida Pro. Fluendo develops multimedia software to offer cross-platform and open source-based multimedia solutions to computer devices and consumer electronics, always aiming at proposing an innovative perspective of entertainment.

For more information regarding Fluendo and GStreamer framework, please visit fluendo.com

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Fluendo S.A. announces its first webinar entitled “Solving the Legal Puzzle of Linux Deployments” aimed understanding the legal implications o0f Linux deployments.Fluendo is an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market, and has succeeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions working with multiple formats and platforms.

Barcelona, Catalonia -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/12/2010 -- For the last few years, and especially in the current economic climate, many businesses are opting to use Linux to reduce their licensing and development costs. By doing this, they have realized that Linux offers other benefits aside from just cutting expenses: Linux users enjoy a robust, flexible and adaptable Operating System with a great choice of tools for productivity and business applications. As any other software, Linux deployments are subject to copyright, trademarks, patents, etc. This sometimes constitutes a real challenge, when it shouldn't be.

To shed some light on these matters, next May the 14th Fluendo will be hosting a free webinar featuring two recognized experts in Intellectual Property, Free and Open Source Software and Patent Licenses. They will discuss before European and American audiences some of the challenges that governments, enterprises, education, and all kinds of organizations face when decide to migrate to Linux.

Webinar dates and times:
-NORTH AMERICA
Fri 14 May 2010 / 08:00am PST-11:00am EST

-EST EMEA & APAC
Fri 14 May 2010 / 10:00am CET - 09:00am GMT

For more information about this webinar, please visit www.fluendo.com /webinar/

If you want to learn more about Fluendo's business solutions, please write to contact@fluendo.com

About Fluendo S.A.
Fluendo was founded in 2004 to address the multimedia issue in GNU/Linux and Free Software in General. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provide a wide range of products under and above GStreamer including proprietary codecs (together with their respective patent licenses), a streaming server, a DVD player, the Fluoh Media Center, and an Open Source media center project.

If you have any questions regarding this webinar, feel free to write to webinar@fluendo.com

For Marketing and Press, contact marcom@fluendo.com

Fluendo, Influencing the Multimedia World

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Metrological and Fluendo today announce that Metrological will integrate Fluendo’s technology into its Metroconnect Operating System to ensure that TV viewers are able to enjoy superior quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV platform.

Barcelona, Catalonia -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/05/2010 -- Fluendo is an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market, and has succeeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions working with multiple formats and platforms.

Metrological Media Innovations' software for set-top box devices enables operators to extend over-the-top home media entertainment services to their subscribers. Whilst watching conventional television, TV viewers are able to simultaneously access an extensive range of additional next generation, web based multimedia applications. Mediaconnect TV's capability includes combining cable, satellite, terrestrial with IPTV and Internet TV services to ensure subscribers have the highest quality experience available on content delivered over the Internet.

"Metrological has created the leading software platform that combines all of the features of interactive television into one convenient and easy to use solution," said Albert Dahan, CTO and co-founder of Metrological. "Aided by Fluendo's technology, users of Mediaconnect TV will be able to experience the best that interactive television has to offer."

"At Fluendo, we are convinced that the future of TV lies on its connective and interactive capabilities. When viewers are able to enjoy TV through web-based applications, the quality of their experience is notably increased", said Julien Moutte, Fluendo CEO and founder. "In this sense, Metrological offers an excellent solution, and Fluendo is proud to have provided the plug-ins integrated into Metroconnect Operating System", he added.

Fluendo is developing state of the art solutions to playback videos and music on different operating systems and devices. More news on the availability of other multimedia solutions will be featured on Fluendo's website at http://www.fluendo.com

If you want to learn more about Fluendo's solutions, send an email to contact@fuendo.com

For Marketing and Press, feel free to contact marcom@fluendo.com

For more information on Metrological, please visit http://www.metrological.com or contact by email: info@metrological.com

About Fluendo S.A.
Fluendo was founded in 2004 to address the multimedia issue in GNU/Linux and Free Software in General. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provide a wide range of products under and above GStreamer including proprietary codecs (together with their respective patent licenses), a streaming server, a DVD player, the Fluendo Media Center, and an Open Source media center project.

About Metrological
Metrological Group, founded in 2003, is headquartered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The company focuses on the development and implementation of innovative hardware and software products. Its subsidiary Metrological Media Innovations specializes in media technology for both the "business to business" and "business to consumer" market. In 2009 the company introduced Mediaconnect TV, a next generation generic open media platform device, based on the Intel® CE Media Processing technology and powered by the Metroconnect Operating System.

Metrological enables Media Service Operators, content providers, equipment manufacturers and retailers, to deliver branded tailor-made Over-The-Top Home Entertainment Media services, by offering a white labeled end-to-end media platform, based on standard TV Widget technology.

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Fluendo S.A announces the Codec Pack Release 11. Fluendo is an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market, and has succeeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions working with multiple formats and platforms.

Barcelona, Spain -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/27/2010 -- Offering their customers stable solutions and a quality experience when playing multimedia is Fluendo's main objective. All the software developed by this company undergoes endless inspections and ongoing updates aimed at ensuring top quality playback and avoiding obsolescence. "We have to be able to meet our customers' needs to make sure we advance in the same direction and at the same pace of the latest technologies. Customers rely on our ability to guarantee that our products will allow them to enjoy the advantages offered by the latest advances in multimedia", said Julien Moutte, Fluendo Founder and CEO.

Following this premise, the Codec Pack Release 11 offers performance improvements for decoding on the 32-bit version for WMV7 and WMV8. This release also incorporates hardware acceleration for VDPAU and VAAPI, which requires Totem >= 2.28.0 and GStreamer >= 0.10.26 to work correctly. Likewise, Fluendo has made some fixes on MPEG2 video decoders to enhance the performance of reverse playback and more reliability. Another great news for this release is the inclusion of AC3 audio Decoder (Dolby Digital), which will work only in the Totem media player.

Fluendo is developing state of the art solutions to enjoy photos, watch videos and listen to music on different operating systems and devices. More news on the availability of further versions of the Codec Pack and other Fluendo multimedia solutions will be featured on the Fluendo website at http://www.fluendo.com

If you want to learn more about Fluendo's business solutions, please send an email to contact@fuendo.com or visit https://www.fluendo.com/business/introduction/

About Fluendo S.A.
Fluendo was founded in 2004 to address the multimedia issue in GNU/Linux and Free Software in General. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provide a wide range of products under and above GStreamer including proprietary codecs (together with their respective patent licenses), a streaming server, a DVD player, the Fluoh Media Center, and an Open Source media center project.

For Marketing and Press feel free to contact Katia Marti at: marcom@fluendo.com

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Fluendo S.A., an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market that has succeeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions working with multiple formats and platforms, announces the launch of the DVD Player for Windows

Barcelona, Catalonia -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/17/2010 -- After the success obtained with the Fluendo DVD Player for Linux and Open Solaris, Fluendo aimed to reach Windows users by offering them fully functional products for that platform. In order reach a broader audience, Fluendo announces the launch of the Fluendo DVD Player for Windows, which includes all the functionalities contained in its original version for Linux: full DVD support with menus, Dolby Digital Sound System 5.1, multiple angles and subtitles, encrypted discs and integration with the GStreamer framework. By entering the Windows market, Fluendo applications span a large number of users who can benefit from Fluendo's quality solutions to enjoy their multimedia on their computers and devices. With the launch of the DVD player for Windows, Fluendo profits from the great versatility of the GStreamer framework to offer multiplatform solutions. Fluendo DVD Player offers more value for a lower price. Menus work as they were intended to, and it's possible use the mouse to click on any menu item or the keyboard cursor keys to switch between the virtual buttons.

"With Fluendo DVD Player, our customers will experience one of the best reproductions of Dolby 5.1. Besides, they will be able to access multiple audio tracks and angles, properly access the DVD menus, view multi language subtitles and use many other features that are missing from other alternatives. We think this a very complete and interesting offer for the people who enjoy watching their DVDs on Windows", said Julien Moutte, Fluendo founder and CEO.

Fluendo is developing state of the art solutions to playback videos and music on different operative systems and devices. More news on the availability of further versions of the Fluendo DVD Player and other Fluendo multimedia solutions will be featured on the Fluendo website at http://www.fluendo.com

If you want to learn more about Fluendo's solutions, send an email to contact@fuendo.com

About Fluendo S.A.
Fluendo was founded in 2004 to address the multimedia issue in GNU/Linux and Free Software in General. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provide a wide range of products under and above GStreamer including proprietary codecs (together with their respective patent licenses), a streaming server, a DVD player, the Fluoh Media Center, and an Open Source media center project.

For Marketing and Press feel free to contact Katia Marti at: marcom@fluendo.com

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Fluendo S.A. is delighted to announce release of the ultimate Media Center for Linux Operating Systems. Fluendo is an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market, and has succeeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions working with multiple formats and platforms.

Barcelona, Catalonia -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/17/2010 -- Fluendo has announced the release of its Media Center, a software application developed by the Spanish company. Fluendo Media Center's versatility was evident from the off when it was used for reproducing a whole manner of multimedia in a variety of devices using completely different platforms. Whether on Windows or Linux; on netbooks, mobile internet devices (MIDs), notebooks or set-top boxes, Fluendo Media Center demonstrated not only its outstanding adaptability, but also its multiple features, attractive graphics and user-friendly interface. This first release will only be operational on Linux distributions but it is expected to get the application running on Windows in the near future.

"The market was missing this legal solution based upon the GStreamer framework. Fluendo Media Center provides end users with a smooth playback and all correspondent licenses from patent holders. We have worked hard to build a global solution that encompasses all of our products as whole, and we have succeeded", explained Pascal Pegaz Paquet, Fluendo's co-founder.

Fluendo Media Center gathers all Fluendo's expertise in software development for Multimedia in one single application, since it comes with all Fluendo's software integrated and their respective patent licenses. After obtaining outstanding results with the codecs and the DVD Player, Fluendo decided to integrate all these solutions into one single application that meets every conceivable expectation: it reproduces DVDs regardless of the region and CSS encryptions, and plays audio and video files of all major formats.

We were delighted to see Fluendo bring the first genuine Dolby certified DVD player to Linux earlier this year. For the first time Linux users have the assurance of the quality of their DVD playback experience through Dolby's extensive testing and certification of this product," said Mary Anderson, Marketing Director, PC Segment, Dolby Laboratories. (NYSE:DLB)

Fluendo is developing state of the art solutions to playback videos and music on different operating systems and devices. More news on the availability of further versions of the Fluendo Media Center and other Fluendo multimedia solutions will be featured on the website http://www.fluendo.com

If you want to learn more about Fluendo's business solutions, please write to contact@fluendo.com

About Fluendo S.A.
Fluendo was founded in 2004 to address the multimedia issue in GNU/Linux and Free Software in General. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo provide a wide range of products under and above GStreamer including proprietary codecs (together with their respective patent licenses), a streaming server, a DVD player, the Fluoh Media Center, and an Open Source media center project.

For Marketing and Press feel free to contact Fluendo at: marcom@fluendo.com

Fluendo, Influencing the Multimedia World

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