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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.
You can use crossover plugin from http://www.codeweavers.com which comes with Apple's Quicktime player. Not native, but codeweaver's products kick arse.
put the what in the where?
Apple's QT streaming server is free and open source, and runs well on both Linux and FreeBSD.
You can download a precompiled version from here and the source code from here or by checking it out of their public CVS server.
Must not have searched very well... In the left column, under Downloads... What do you see? That's right! A link for downloading skins!
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>Configure your X for multiple resolutions, and switch between them with ctrl-alt +/-
But when you change resolutions in Windows you actually change the resolution of the desktop, not just the monitor. XFree86 just scrolls the large image which can be very annoying. The desktop must be atleast as large as the highest resolution mode defined.
Also Windows and MacOS can change colour depth on the fly. X can't (Even eXceed on Windows complains when you change colour depth).
>>> vnc (or other RFB) server support, so I can view my desktop -- the one shown on the monitor from another computer
>VNC was made by AT&T, had has clients & servers for almost every platform, including linux
The Unix VNC server does not mirror the current display. It provides a seperate remote display. On Windows VNC lets you use the current display which can be very usefull. I wish the Unix VNC server could provde this feature.
Funny, those I've seen seem to mainly use WMP format, which rarely gives me any sound under MacOS X. On the other hand, no sound is often a good thing on such sites!
DivX on the Mac is also problematic. With third party utilities, I also get video with no sound.
"Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
>> font support
Already prety damn decent, if you use freetype 2.1.1
Yes, some display support has improved. How about printing? How about font installation? How about obtaining font metrics and outlines from the font system -- oh, wait, you have to ask X for the path and then read the font file yourself, that's right, duh.
>> alpha blending support
Keith has also included this in his set of X updates, alpha support is included
Where? Link? I'd love to see it. All I've seen to this point is his "twm" demo, which was slow and limited (according to Keith).
>> usable configuration (Think Mac, Windows, ven BeOS)
Actualy redhat, mandrake, etc are comming a long way with this. (admitedly not there, but closing in)
This must be one of those invisible features. How do you install a driver, change the refresh rate, color depth, resolution, etc. without editing
>> changing resolutions on the fly
Configure your X for multiple resolutions, and switch between them with ctrl-alt +/-
This does not change the resolution of the display, only the size of the viewport.
>> vnc (or other RFB) server support, so I can view my desktop -- the one shown on the monitor from another computer
VNC was made by AT&T, had has clients & servers for almost every platform, including linux
I'll refer you to my other post about this... see below.
Most of the stuff you mention is pure FUD, or outdated.. (so outdated that you should be comparing linux to windows95 then)
Please research a bit more before trying to spread more FUD
It's not FUD, and you're actually the one who's mostly wrong, not me. Plus, you're a little touchy, aren't you? I mean, X isn't a sacrament or anything, and I'm not even suggesting that it has to be replaced.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
RedHat, ...Mandrake?
Unless the XFree86 team is doing it, it's a non-standard band-aid "solution".
Please contact me at your earliest convenience at jeffrey AT firehead DOT org. I run the site listed in my .sig and am used to dealing with all sorts of legal BS. I would very much like to see this code out there, and could definitely help with a proper release of it.
Yes.
QuickTime Streaming Server
RTP/RTSP Tutorial
deus does not exist but if he does
DDC. Yes, XFree86 supports DDC level 1 and level 2. Look in XFree86.0.log and you'll see XFree86 talking to your monitor, discovering refresh rates and supported resolutions, then populating your modelines with what it found. It's all automatic and has been for at least a year.
XRender is only for fonts. The translucent menus in KDE are a hack.
Not true. I suggest you check the Developers Guide to XRENDER before making false statements. Even a perfunctory glance at the screenshots on the page show alpha blended geometries other than fonts.
And I am quite sure for KDE 3.0.1 KDE->Control Center->Look and Feel->Style->Effects->Menu Translucency Type has an option for "XRender Blend". XRender, not just for fonts anymore.
Try x0rfbserver This does what you want. It's been around for years and years.
VNC's approach of setting up a separate display is a design feature, designed to take advantage of X's natural ability to support more than one output display. You can also start the regular old AT&T VNC server such that it also starts X in the same session, giving you the same effect as x0rfbserver. This has been there since day one with VNC.
I only wish the Windows and Mac versions of VNC let you start a session that *didn't* control the current display. This is a failure of the design of the windowing systems under Windows and MacOS. Please don't attribute your lack of knowledge of VNC as a failure in the design of the X Window System or the Unix version of VNC.
--Be human.
Uhmm, I don't know about your experience but I've never, ever found pr0n in Quicktime format. It's always Real (crappy), mpeg or some bastard AVI format. In the olden tymes it was ViVo or Real..but never Quicktime.
The only good this does is let linux users watch quicktime trailers (after they download no doubt).
Oh man. Yet another "X sucks" troll. I have no idea why I waste my time with these, but here goes... (and in HTML, no less :-)
I could really stand folks spending 15 minutes doing research before writing these critiques. OTOH, I guess I was successfully trolled, so what do I know?
I think you misread. It's the sorensen guys that dodged a couple of patents.
As nearly as I can tell, you need to also lay out a similar wad of cash for an encoder to produce "hinted" quicktime video that's usable with Apple's free streaming server.
If someone knows of a free or cheap way to encoder or convert video to include "hinting" for use with Apple's open-source streaming server, please speak up!
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