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zridling:
Fluendo has released a new set of their Codec Pack which includes improvements in the Windows Media codecs, aimed at enhancing the support of MSB Streaming, generating a GstIndex while demuxing, and improving seeking functions. The MPEG pack has been enhanced as well by increasing video fluidity for MPEG2. Many other fixes and updates have been included, making the Fluendo Codec Pack one of the most efficient and complete solutions to playback audio and video on a wide variety of devices and formats.



Offering the Linux/Unix community stable solutions and a quality experience when playing multimedia is not an easy task. Among those for sale are the full pack, which includes:

* The new Fluendo codec pack V7 includes Windows Media Audio Decoder (Windows Media 7, 8, 9, 10, Pro, Lossless and Speech)
* Windows Media Video Decoder (Windows Media 7, 8, 9 and VC1)
* Windows Media ASF Demuxer
* Windows Media MMS Networking
* MPEG2 Video Decoder
* MPEG4 Part 2 Video Decoder
* DivX 3.11 Alpha Video Decoder
* H.264/AVC Video Decoder
* MPEG2 Program Stream and Transport Stream demuxer
* MPEG4 ISO Demuxer
* MP3 Audio Decoder
* AAC Audio Decoder
* LPCM Audio Decoder
Great stuff.

housetier:
for me, mplayer has always been sufficient. But I know there are more media players, and I think some of them might actually benefit from this pack.

Under which license are these distributed?

zridling:
Under their original licenses. Fluendo sells a variety of codec packs for Linux users, presumably US users given the restrictions there.

Innuendo:
I understand the Linux world is totally different when it comes to codecs compared to the Windows platform, but it just makes me feel weird to hear people talk about buying a codec pack.

zridling:
@Innuendo:
Yea, it does, doesn't it! But in today's patent-drowning, copyrighted world, at least it's available and guaranteed to work. Of course, you can always click through the "kicker" dialog and download them freely if you want.

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