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@Fusspawn meant 600W. See this is how I got that 1KW thing in the first place. big numbers are better.

Monday, January 15 2007

Fluendo opens shop

I just found out that Fluendo filled there shop with a lot of media codec plugins, i've been waiting for this for quite some time since i first heard Ronald speak about it. I think the idea of paying for closed codecs on a open source system is fine, if someone legally creates a open version, sure i will take it, but i rather pay for legal codecs to view my media then use the w32codec pack from mplayer to view my stuff.

The installation was dead simple, either throw the codecs in a hidden subdirectory of your home directory or in your server wide gstreamer installation directory. And as expected it worked without a fuss, now most of my anime collection is playable in totem without stuttering or anything :) And like Ronald demo'd a few times while he was still in the Netherlands the seeking works like a wonder.

Some of the more obscure codecs still don't work of course X-h264 and such, but all mainstream stuff just worked.
Hopefully the shop will expand in the coming months to include many more codecs, and i'll probably be buying them all :) the price is right anyway, for all the codecs in the shop the current price at the moment is only 28€

As for screenshots well there's not much too see, but here's some shots anyway.