[desktop-discuss] Re: Fluendo announces multimedia for Linux and Solaris

[Ivan Wang]

> > > > For people interested in playing video's on
> > > Solaris,
> > > > this announcement might be interesting - 
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2007-01.html
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks, but why aren't all the plugins available
> > for
> > >  Solaris?
> > 
> > Don't know actually. Probably best to ask fluendo
> > that question. I would probably suggest that they
> > haven't yet completed the Solaris port (sparc &
> x86)
> > for the missing plugins.
> > 
> > Doug
> 
> According to Stephen Harpster's Weblog, fluendo is
> under active development by Sun's Beijing team:

<p>Ok, call me pessimistic, I wouldn't expect anything before it really get shipped in SXCR or Sol11. 
<p>An offtopic but long time PITA: pdf support, I haven't tried evince, but IIRC, it still leverages on the same rendering engine as xpdf. If it is the case, how would that help about Adobe's unwillingness to release acroread for x86? I would be very suprised if evince is able to correctly render every PR pdf files handed out by Sun's own PR department.

Ivan.


> 
> . . . <snip>
> 
> One of my favorite things about visiting Beijing is
> getting demos of all the projects. I always know what
> projects are under development, but to actually see a
> prototype or working demo is really exciting. Of
> course better performance and more eye-candy is
> always rolling out, but some exciting new features
> that are coming out include:
> 
> . . . <snip>
> 
> Better multimedia support: newer Flash, newer
> Real Player, Fluendo, and Evince, which should
> resolve the problem of Adobe not wanting to port
> acroread to Solaris x64. 
> 
> . . . "
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/harpster/entry/improving_the_deve
> loper_desktop
 
 
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