Users of Ubuntu Linux offered to buy multimedia codecs

29th September 2008

Gerry Carr, a marketing manager of Canonical, announced in an official company blog that Fluendo and CyberLink are beginning to sell their multimedia codecs to users of Ubuntu Linux via the online-shop Canonical Store.
The company Fluendo provides support of developing the Open Source-project GStreamer and sells a standard set of proprietary codecs from Windows Media (Audio, Video, MMS, ASF) and MP3 for 25 USD, and extended (with MPEG4 Part 2, H.264/AVC, MPEG2 Program Stream and Transport Stream, AAC, MPEG4 ISO) - for 40 USD. CyberLink sells for 50 USD the software product PowerDVD for Linux, providing an opportunity to play the legal commercial DVD-movies (and with support of Dolby Digital Audio).

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