[gst-devel] OpenStream

Wim Taymans wim.taymans at chello.be
Wed Oct 25 22:32:05 CEST 2000


"Myers W. Carpenter" wrote:
> 
>         While looking around the Indrema site (http://www.indrema.com/) (they
> are making a linux tv game/dvd console) I noticed a project that looks
> intresting:  OpenStream (http://www.indrema.com/openstream/).
> 
>         The OpenStream project is a collaboration of several
>         development groups, including Indrema and Precision Insight,
>         working to create a new royalty free gold standard for
>         professional video on Linux. The plan is to host the
>         project on VA Linux' SourceForge, and to encourage open
>         source developers to contribute to the API and code
>         development. The project will produce the OpenStream 1.0
>         API specification and Sample Implementation with support
>         for MPEG2 encoding and decoding hardware acceleration, a
>         CODEC plug-in architecture, and drivers for some popular
>         MPEG2 hardware.
> 
>         When completed the OpenStream 1.0 specification will be
>         released to a standards body to govern its future development
>         as an open standard, and the code development will continue
>         to evolve according to the open source model. Professional
>         non-linear editing software, multimedia presentation software
>         tools, and Internet video authoring tools are all examples
>         of products that will benefit from a common open standard for
>         video on Linux. Indrema and other supporters of the standard
>         hope to see many video products released with OpenStream support
>         soon after the 1.0 specification is completed.
> 
>   Of course 9/10th of the links on the page are dead, even the ones to
> download the current codebase.
>   I wonder how far along they are.

This exact page is there for at least 8 months now. I have not noticed 
any changes since. I have no idea about the status. It seems dead
although some heavy groups seem to be involved...

Wim


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