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Best multi-platform multimedia fram...  
5.0
 
written over 16 years ago

Being able to decode most video/audio files found on the net from common WMA/WMV/MPG/OGG/AVI to the rarest formats AU/MOD/MonkeyAudio, it is the equivalent of MS DirectShow on steroids.

Highly modular and with a clean code base, it runs on most Unixies (Linux, MacOSX, Solaris, ...) and also under Windows.

Designed as a set of plug-ins, you can encode/decode/stream whatever you want.

It is even business friendly as you can find commercial support easily via Fluendo, Collabora Multimedia and certainly many more OSS companies.
As its license is LGPL and it is set of modules, they could build their own proprietary modules and use them. (to use a hardware en/decoder for example)

Feel free to jump into #gstreamer on Freenode if you have questions. They're always responsive and friendly.

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Flash, the open-way  
5.0
 
written over 16 years ago

Tired of using Macromedia/Adobe binary blob ? Still waiting for a 64bits or a PPC version ?

Wait no longer, swfdec is here for you !

This project is quite mature and is the fastest and more complete/compliant open-source Flash implementation in town.

It actually implements most of Flash 8 and provides a thumbnailer for your desktop and a web browser plug-in for Firefox and Konqueror.

Even if Gnash has much attention these days, prefer experience and completeness !

You can join the team on #swfdec on Freenode.

Actually glib/gtk+ based, a DirectFB port for embedded systems is in the works

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Glib::Gnome HTTP client reference i...  
4.0
   
written over 16 years ago

This library is the easiest way to build a project using HTTP protocol. Using GLib, it is object oriented (well, the Gnome way)

It is quite mature.

On the other hand, on embedded systems, you'll certainly prefer cURL.

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