Fluendo Launches the Long Awaited DVD Player for Open Solaris

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Wed 18 Nov 2009

Fluendo S.A. announces the launch of the long awaited DVD Player for Open Solaris.

Fluendo is an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market, and hassucceeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions working with multiple formats and platforms.

After the success obtained with the Fluendo DVD Player for Linux, Open Solaris users expressed their desirefor Fluendo DVD Player to be able to playback DVDs on their operating system. Ever since its first releaselast July, the Open Solaris community have been waiting for a legal solution capable of integrating anapplication that profits from Fluendo audio and video codecs to reproduce DVDs.

Attending their needs, Fluendo launches the Fluendo DVD Player for Open Solaris which includes all thefunctionalities contained in its original version for Linux: full DVD support with menus, multiple angles andsubtitles, encrypted discs and integration with the GStreamer framework.

“With Fluendo DVD Player, it will be possible to playback DVDs on the Open Solaris desktop. This isexcellent news since we are taking an important step towards improving the experience of Open Solarisusers”

said Richard Barr, Director of Sun Microsystems Global Sales & Services ISV Solutions.

Fluendo is developing state of the art solutions to playback videos and music on different operative systemsand devices. More news on the availability of further versions of the Fluendo DVD Player and other Fluendomultimedia solutions will be featured on the Fluendo website atwww.fluendo.comIf you want to learn more about our business solutions, please contact us at

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 quicklyestablishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendoprovide a wide range of products under and above GStreamer including proprietary codecs (together with theirrespective patent licenses), a streaming server, a DVD player, the Fluoh Media Center, and an Open Sourcemedia center project.

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