In response to the growing demand for proprietary multimedia codecs on the open-source Linux platform, multimedia software development company Fluendo has released GStreamer codec plugins that provide ...

Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop distributions around. And one of its most appealing features was that it shipped with multimedia codecs. But that practice will end with Linux Mint 18, ...

Which video player/codec pack do you recommend? I just grabbed VLC and Mplayer, and VLC worked better, while Mplayer crashed on some divX. How does one relate windoze codec packs to codecs in Linux?

A typical Linux system is largely comprised of unrestricted, open-source software. But some of the most popular software around is either closed-source or open-source, but restricted by patents.

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Munich - The Linux operating system owes most of its popularity to the fact that it is open-source software and anyone can expand or edit it. But that is proving a double-edged sword for software ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

A few weeks ago I took a look at how Ubuntu 7.04 handled proprietary file formats such as MP3, WMA and QuickTime movies. Overall the support was good (although I couldn't get QuickTime 7 movie support ...

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs. The new version of the ...