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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. Apple will piss and moan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    and cry sour grapes whilst their own userbase is declining. They sure don't seem very receptive in expanding it in other areas.

  2. Re:Linux is catchings up... by The+Mayor · · Score: 2, Troll

    OK. I've configued my X server for multiple resolutions. I hit ctrl-alt-+ and I get a different resolution. Not a larger or smaller viewport at the same resolution. A different resolution. I can switch between 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. At all resolutions I see the entire viewport (i.e. no scrolling). This implies that I am actually getting different resolutions, not different viewports at the same resolution.

    Also, I think you've overlooked one VNC project named x0rfbserver. This runs an rfb server (the VNC protocol) on display 0 of your X server. Therefore it shares the current desktop over VNC (just like VNC on Windows and the Mac). This project has been around for years (I stumbled across it probably 5 years ago or thereabouts).

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