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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. The ripple effect on other Free systems by freebsd+guy · · Score: 2, Funny
    Although the majority of experienced UNIX gurus run Linux on their desktops, a surprising number of us (myself included) prefer the Berkeley-inspired eccentricities of BSD. The good news here is that FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD all have Linux compatibility kernel modules that have all been verified to work with the new Linux release of the Sorenson codec. As a graphics designer, Apple's anti-freedom, closed-source licensing policy on QuickTime was the only reason why I have had to keep a Windows machine around until now, but this development will make it possible for me to de-Microsoft my office and install Gentoo on my spare machine. Bravo for the Xine team!

    freebsd guy

  2. Re:Licensing? Patents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Judging from the above posters, if you don't like a law just ignore it?

    So much for civilization.

  3. Not your average couch potato by citizenkeller · · Score: 4, Funny
    I have a fully working SVQ3 codec that I reverse engineered sitting on my harddrive

    Man, that must have been uncomfortable!

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    -- Serge K. Keller
  4. Re:who cares by Dilbert_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hehe, best argument I heard yet. It is well known that all computer progress comes from porn: why else would people need more bandwith, better monitors and larger harddrives? To store Word documents? I thought so ;-)

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  5. Native is evil by heroine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it really politically correct to write native software for Linux anymore? Isn't the main focus of Linux now an emulation platform for Win32?

  6. Re:Licensing? Patents? by bsane · · Score: 2, Funny

    You shouldn't be posting such subversive thoughts unless you want the FBI to monitor you...