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GStreamer: Best multi-platform multimedia framework in town
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
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Swfdec: Flash, the open-way
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
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libsoup: Glib/Gnome HTTP client reference implementation
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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