[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Audio File Support

[Brian Cameron]

Ken:

> The Gstreamer framework is well supported on Solaris
> 8->10 and Solaris Express so the question really goes
> into the plugins. 

Not sure what you mean by "well supported".  Although
the GStreamer framework does exist on Solaris 10, it
is GStreamer 0.8 and not 0.10.

Note that the Fluendo plugins only work with 0.10, so
it would be a bit of work to port GStreamer 0.10 to
earlier versions of Solaris if we want to make Fluendo
plugins available to Solaris 10 (or earlier) users.

> Proprietary plugins from Fluendo may come at a cost
> for support, maintenance, and licenses.
> 
> This doesn't mean you can't have the full GStreamer
> framework with the "license free" plugins.
> 
> Also, you have to look closely at what plugins are
> available for Solaris versus Linux. Check if the WMA
> 10 codecs are supported. 

My understanding is that WMA/WMV support is the same
on Solaris versus Linux.  The main difference is that
Fluendo has MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 plugins for Linux, but
not Solaris.  I think I explained in detail why, in
my previous message.

> Users may ask why is this needed on Solaris? Well, for
> those people who are into embedded
> servers/workstations as well as content creation.
> Also, cross platform development projects where
> Solaris is used on desktop/workstations.

If there is enough demand (especialy if there is an
interest in helping with funding), then I'm sure
Fluendo would be interested to talk.

Brian