[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fluendo Codecs

[Albert Lee]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:52 PM,  <sysop at lavabit.com> wrote:
>> I just went to Fluendo's site and it seems they've reworked it... I can't
>> see any way to get to the codec downloads. When I log in, however, I get
>> the
>> "My Products" page, which still has links to OpenSolaris downloads for
>> everything. Did you try that?
>>
>> A side note - I use the Fluendo codecs for music, but something about
>> GStreamer on Solaris is preventing it from downmixing 5.1 audio to stereo,
>> rendering Totem pretty much useless for most of my video playback needs. I
>> switched to SFEmplayer2 recently and it's been working flawlessly.
>>
>
> Created an account and logged in but no joy, I'm guessing Fluendo are only
> making the older codecs available for customers that have purchased them
> prior to the latest update.
>
> Thanks for the pointer for SFEmplayer2, I would prefer totem w/codecs but
> if mplayer works that's also good to know.
>

SFEgnome-media-extras covers most of the GStreamer plugins.

-Albert