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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.
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WHOA. This is HUGE news. Tell the AP. Tell CNN. LINUX CAN NOW DO QUICKTIME. w00000t!
Megadeth - Lucretia
Sitting up late at night
I tiptoe through the darkness
Cold as hell black as spades
Aware of my immediate surrounding
In my place I escape
Up into my hideout
Hiding from everyone
My friends all say
Dave your mental any way hey
Drift into a deeper state
I stalk the cobwebbed stairways
Dirt grits beneath my feet
The stair creaks,I precariously sneak
Hypnosis guides my hand
I slipslide through the walkways
Sit in granny's rockin' chair
Memories are whirling by yeah
Reminisce in the attic
Lucretia waits impatiently
Cobwebs make me squint
The cobra so eloquently glints
Moonbeams surge through the sky
The crystal ball's energized
Surely that like the cat waiting
Lucretia rocks away
A professor at the University of Mississippi is giving a
lecture on the supernatural. To get a feel for his
audience, he asks: "How many people here believe in
ghostses?" About 90 students raise their hands.
"Well, that's a good start. Out of those of you who
believe in ghostses, do any of you think you've ever seen
a ghostse?" About 40 students raise their hands.
"That's really good. Has anyone here ever talked to a
ghostse?" 15 students raise their hands.
"That's great. Has anyone here ever touched a ghostse?" 3
students raise their hands.
"That's fantastic. But let me ask you one question
further... Have any of you ever made love to a ghostse?"
One student way in the back raises his hand.
The professor is astonished and says, "Son, all the
years I've been giving this lecture, no one has ever
claimed to have slept with a ghostse. You've got to come
up here and tell us about your experience."
The redneck student replies with a nod and a grin, and
begins to make his way up to the podium. The professor
says, "Well, tell us what it's like to have sex with
ghostse."
The student replies, "Ghostse?!? From ah-way back there ah
thought yuh said "goatse."
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Early post? :-)
"Lucretia, My Reflection" by Sisters of Mercy
and cry sour grapes whilst their own userbase is declining. They sure don't seem very receptive in expanding it in other areas.
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QT sucks, DivX leads them all in compression and quality.
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?
really quick time *huh* think of all the pr0n i can watch now... this is so exciting,wonderful,happness is now knocking on my door letting me in.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you
so very mcuh <b>quicktime gods</b>
*huh* Sig? WTF?
Licensing? Patents?
Someone care to explain what the team did about
these little problems?
but articles like this really do point out the weakest points of it. If your strong into multimedia (graphic design, sound mixing, 3D modeling, etc). You're still better off in most cases to be using a Win/Mac machine with a much more mature and complete software solutions. This isn't a knock against linux or other *nix's just points out what the weakest links are.
Whats the point of a PWP reply?
freebsd guy
introduced me to Wesley Willis as well
Apple will keep on rolling out Quicktime, A/V people will keep buying Apple products, and as for the media player wars, how many people actually paid ~$30 for the "Pro" versions? The real money's in the content creation tools, e.g. the video editor, streaming server, etc. Apple makes some decent money from this department, so I don't see how throwing another player into a market saturated by freebies is going to change anything.
And DivX is based on MPEG-4, which is supported in Quicktime 6.
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Is your browser retarded?
Windows/Mac people say that Linux won't be a key player on the desktop until it can play movies encoded with Sorenson.
Linux people complain that Apple (or Sorenson) is denying Linux's credibility by withholding Quicktime Player...bad form from a company who's new OS was mostly poached from the opensource FreeBSD
Well, now that someone has provided the Sorenson codec through emulation, people will realize that it doesn't make much of a fucking difference either way, does it? I guess that means some people will have to find something better to whine about...
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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).
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.
It was funny, because as I was reading your post, I could hear the sound of thousands and thousands of filthy, long-haired, unshaven, smelly geeks blowing their wads all over your text on their screens.
I'm still waiting for the codec to be available and usable with MPlayer so I can use it on FreeBSD and other platforms. Is this doable with this?
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...and plays great in MPlayer.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
What about MPEG-4 on Linux? I haven't really looked for it, but I was just wondering how well, if at all, it is supported, since the new QuickTime 6 preview supports it.
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MPEG-4 is really sweet stuff. Just as a test today, a friend and I encoded an entire full-length movie that was captured via FireWire DV and encoded it into a 653MB MP4 file using QuickTime 6 on OS X. I was amazed at the quality. It blew away MPEG-1/VCD, DivX, and even Sorenson in video quality, and the audio quality was quite good too, all while fitting on a single 700 MB CD-R.
I would love to see DVD players support MP4 playback from burned CD-R's. The quality is actually good enough that you can sit back and watch a movie distributed on a single CD and just enjoy it without being annoyed by poor quality video and audio.
MP4 will really revolutionize video... if the licensing issues don't kill it before it gets off the ground, but that is another story
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've no quarrel with that, but surely they must have worked out generalised routines in order to come up with the Windoze ports of Quicktime, in which case one might be justified in arguing that the work is already half done.
I, for one, would probably not object too strenuously to shelling out a nominal few dollars for a decently-working Quicktime viewer for Linux just for the convenience of being able to view those occasional movie files.
I have also been told that the KDE project is integrating xine as their standard video player component...
Well it seems a lot of people has some missunderstanding regarding Sorensen and Apple. So let's get it right: Apple don't own Sorensen what Apple owns is the exclusive right to distribute Sorensen for use in video playback (wich is why they complained when it was going to be used in Flash also. They have to enforce contracts like these or they will be invalid).
This isn't redistribution however. As far as I understand it's a standard QT for Windows that's running under Linux (that's what Wine does. Makes windows apps run under Linux - right?). So it don't change anything. On the other hand someone posted that they have reverse engineered some of the binaries from QT. Depending on if it's Apples binaries or Sorensens one of the two might not like that (Sorensen most of all perhaps. Since they have an interrest in protecting their technology).
Since mplayer got Real support the only really missing link was the sorensen quicktime codecs. Now that Xine has done sorensen and it's gpl 'ed it should just be a matter of time before mplayer has support for it too. Isn't Free Software wonderful?
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Yeah, so what? Apache's open source, but you still need a browser (decoder) and authoring tools (encoder). All the server does is send the data to users over the net. If you can't have a browsers, you can't even see the content, and without at least a text editor and image manipulation program you can't create any content.
In fact, when you encode video for streaming, you need to include a thing Apple calls "hinting". Normal MPEG4 and other streams do not have this. The hinting is an additional track that specifies to the server where the packet boundries out to be so that lost packets won't corrupt lots of upcoming video. The point is that most of the streaming magic happens at the encoder where the "hinting" makes most of the decisions about how to stream the video... the server does parse the data and read the hinting, but all the "real work" is precomputed by the proprietary encoder.
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Kinda OT but:
How do I open videos from Xine's GUI? I already tried the help files.
that the open source ethic seems to be "fuck copyright, let's put a lot of hard work into it now and get it banned later?"
I'm not being facetious here. Time and again I see hard work being done on projects that don't stand a chance of not being sued into oblivion. Doesn't anyone else see this as being the tiniest bit futile?
This is why the open-source movement seems approximately as honest as the October Revolution in many of its intentions and goals. They don't actually try to accomplish things which would be positive for all involved. Instead, they waste their time on things which are questionably legal to begin with and which wind up giving all open-source a bad name.
Why aren't more of these people focusing on things that would make open-source palatable, like a Linux with a UI that doesn't reek, or that you don't need to supply a zillion command-line inputs to to make a Plug and Play device work? Why are they putting all this effort into something which is probably just going to get a cease-and-desist slapped on them, and which is probably going to be echoed by someone else who actually has the right to develop this work? Why are they throwing their time and effort into a hole?
And don't be fooled by the friendliness of IBM and suchlike over Linux. IBM could care less about Linux; they care about selling computers and making money. Just because they sell servers with Linux installed doesn't mean they care one whit about what open source "implies." And why should they? Judging from the actions of a lot of people, all it seems to imply is that in the minds of a lot of people, intellectual property is bunk -- when it most certainly isn't.
The problem with open-source in a closed-source world is that it's not only untenable on a large scale, but misleading. I resent the idea that I am to be marched towards a future that requires me to give away the fruit of my labor. I don't ike the DMCA either, but since when has being a dick been an excuse?
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?
Post it on freenet and put the key in the newsgroups to get it rolling... Share the wealth.
That would be huge good news for consumers everywhere (assuming MPEG-LA gives up on the per-minute fee).
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I doubt they will really care about this. They
didn't actively stop any Linux activity; they
are just not allowed to actively support it,
thanks to their investment from Microsoft and
the guarantee of Office & IE for Mac.
The ability to play on more platforms makes
Sorenson MORE useful, not less, and they're
getting it for free.
The whole purpose of MPEG-4 is that it takes the player out of the game. All that matters is that you can decode/encode MPEG-4. In a year or two, Sorenson should be irrelevant, and XINE will just need MPEG-4 support.
That being said, doesn't MPEG-4 have some pretty herendous licensing restrictions of its own?
Slashdotter's, none the less, should be campaigning for sites to support MPEG-4 . If they want Linux, and *BSD to become fully supported across streaming sites.
IE instructions: Allow the movie to play. Open up your temporary internet files folder and sort by size. One of the big ones will be the QT movie.
It works for the Apple.com movie trailers at least.
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The thing that really bothers me about Xine is when it scales a DVD down (i.e. 720x480->640x480), it just shifts the 16x16 MPEG-2 blocks, rather than doing a real video scale. This severely distorts the motion of any movie, causes text to look rippled, and faces to look like they went through a meat grinder... Apparently Xine doesn't use Xv to do scaling. Plus, when playing videos with the surround40 alsa driver on my SB Live 5.1, the sound is delayed by half a second or more, and no option is presented to adjust the sound/video sync offset, as there was with OSS. What gives?
The thing I DO like about Xine, however, is that it seems to run much more smoothly than mplayer when given the same DVD to play on the same computer at the same resolution, through the same hardware devices using the same API's (Xv, OSS).
A solution to the problem with music today
In relation to the topic being discussed, I personally would recommend waiting until Apple and Sorenson Media resolve the legal formalities and questions surrounding Sorenson Video and the exclusivity license agreement in question. If all goes as planned we should know the outcome within the next 60-90 days. That said, we don't view broad adoption and support of our video codecs as a bad thing providing we can do so in a legal manner. We have been interested in supporting Linux for some time now but due to the nature of our contract with Apple, we haven't been able to pursue this effort before now. The exclusivity agreement with Apple expired last April '02 so our options for supporting this effort are a little more open now (pending resolution of certain legal formalities). Companies or individuals interested in licensing any of our codecs (Sorenson Video 3.1 Pro, Sorenson MPEG-4 Pro, Sorenson Spark Pro) for integration into their products should contact either myself or Matt Copal matt@sorenson.com (Business Development Sorenson Media). Moving forward you will see announcements made by us later this year that will not only greatly benefit QuickTime 6, but also the Linux community as a well. Stay tuned! Ammen Harper Sorenson Media Director Product Management aharper@sorenson.com