Native Sorenson Playback Comes to Linux

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.

Comments

Not your average couch potato

[citizenkeller]

I have a fully working SVQ3 codec that I reverse engineered sitting on my harddrive

Man, that must have been uncomfortable!

Native is evil

[heroine]

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?