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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. Re:Licensing? Patents? by G-funk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stuff them, release it AC somewhere, post it here, then by the time somebody starts to "cease and desist" it'll be too late.

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  2. This is NOT clean-room implemented by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you read the thread you will see that the author looked at Apple's QT binaries for codebooks to decode some of the encodings. I'm sure there are EULAs that prohibit this. This patch is going to have a lot of legal problems. That's a shame because it is a big boost for QT and thus for Apple, but that's the way it is. I grabbed a copy of it so that when they get an injunction from Apple I'll still be able to post it somewhere in the Free World (ie, not in the US).