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Mplayer Adds Sorenson v3 To the Linux Roster

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the celebrate-good-times-come-on dept.

prmths writes "mplayer now plays sorenson V3! This is the last major format that was unplayable under linux and it has now been conquered! They also added the 2xsai algorithm for video scaling. This will let you increase the resolution of non-photo-like videos (anime/cartoons) by 2 times -- it's not a blurring algorithm -- 2xsai actually guesses edges and fills in the pixels."

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  1. Weak - it's closed source by pyite69 · · Score: 3, Flamebait


    This will never be an acceptable solution until
    distributions can support it out of the box.
    That will require actually figuring out the
    file format instead of just hacking in some
    DLL's.

    You are probably violating Apple's license by
    doing this anyway.