Flumotion, SA is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming platform to publish audio and video content via internet. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia It belongs to the Fluendo multimedia services group, involved in the creation of GStreamer. Fluendo SA is a Private company founded by Julien Moutte, Pascal Pegaz and Thomas Vander Stichele based in Barcelona Spain GStreamer is a pipeline based Multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.
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Flumotion Streaming Platform
The Flumotion Streaming Platform is a CDN that supports leading formats like Windows Media, MP3 or Flash, as well as the open standard Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Theora. A Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network ( CDN) is a system of Computers networked together across the Internet that Windows Media is a Multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression Adobe Flash (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a set of Multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently To learn how to create video or audio files for Wikipedia and its sister projects check WikipediaCreation and usage of media files. Vorbis is a free and open source, lossy audio Codec project headed by the Xiph Theora is an open and royalty-free Lossy Video compression technology being developed by the Xiph Therefore, it can reach nearly 100 % of the internet users regardless of the Operating System (Windows, Mac, Linux) they use. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination
Free Software
The streaming platform is based in the multimedia framework GStreamer, written in the C programming language. Flumotion provides also a basic package of its Streaming Server under the GPL. The Advanced Streaming Server must be purchased.
Customers
Among the customers of the company are Cuatro, RTVE, Antena 3 or CBNews. Cuatro ("Four" is a Spanish private television channel on air since November 2005. The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española SA (Spanish Radio and Television Corporation or Corporación Radiotelevisión Española ( RTVE) is the state-owned Antena 3 de Television SA, ( is a Spanish television network and media company present in the Television, Radio and cinema industries
See also
Links
- Flumotion CDN site
- Flumotion software site
- Fluendo site
- The Mosaic Magazine interviews the Flumotion CEO
- Fluendo makes proprietary codecs available to Linux users
- Concurrent Video-on-Demand Streams to Reach 163 million in 2011, According to ABI Research