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Native Sorenson Playback Comes to Linux

Posted by timothy on from the snowball-effect dept.

Pivot writes: "With the release of Xine v0.9.11a, it is now possible to play back Quicktime movies encoded with the Sorenson SVQ1 encoding natively. There are still some minor issues with sound, and still no support for SVQ3 encoding, but overall this is a major achievement. Downloads are at xine.sf.net. I wonder what apple will do about this." Note: you may have to cut and paste that "movies" link into a new tab or browser.

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  1. bout time! by morgajel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    maybe now we can get some of you whiners to shut up:)

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  2. Irascible Malcontents. by Gizzmonic · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The Sorenson codec has been the source of so many complaints on Slashdot.

    Windows/Mac people say that Linux won't be a key player on the desktop until it can play movies encoded with Sorenson.

    Linux people complain that Apple (or Sorenson) is denying Linux's credibility by withholding Quicktime Player...bad form from a company who's new OS was mostly poached from the opensource FreeBSD

    Well, now that someone has provided the Sorenson codec through emulation, people will realize that it doesn't make much of a fucking difference either way, does it? I guess that means some people will have to find something better to whine about...

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  3. Re:YAXSP (Re:Linux is catchings up...) by evilviper · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Resolution changing has been in X for as long as I've used X, and what the hell is the big deal? Even if it wasn't, it takes a grand total of 2 seconds to restart X.

    Configuration is, manual, but works just fine as far as Im concerned. X can't just guess on everything... Use RedHat or some other boxed solution if you want a program to easilly configure X.

    There IS VNC support... It's been around for quite some time. Why don't you quit your bitching and whining and actually look for it yourself! IT will take a minute or two of your own time. That means it will save you time, and everyone else's time replying to you... But then you wouldn't get the chance to whine about it to an unsympathetic anyonymous crowd.

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  4. Re:Licensing? Patents? by DraKKon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Typical... You have the "I get my OS for free, so I must have everything else for free" attitude.. This is soo typical of the majority of the /duh crowd... let me guess.. you;ve downloaded all your music through gnapster (when napster was active)..

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