Multimedia News and Articles

After many years of development, the Songbird open source software is finally released as version 1.0.

For quite a while Ubuntu had been including example-content packages with its releases that contained the same content: some audio and video data to test the playback, including a video of Nelson Mandela.

Multimedia software MPlayer notifies of security holes in the Real demuxer code that can result in arbitrary code execution.

Ekiga, formerly known as GnomeMeeting, is an open source VoIP application with video support. The Ekiga project has recently incorporated major enhancements into its version 3.0 software.

Skype, the free VoIP software, has left beta status and advanced to stable Version 2.0.

The makers of Asterisk, the Open Source phone system, have removed a bug that allowed denial of service attacks under certain circumstances.

The Jacklab Audio Distribution (JAD) 1.0 aims to offer what the media artist's heart desires, audio, video and imaging. And it aims to help users migrate from Windows.