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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. that's ...good? by gTsiros · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "mplayer now plays sorenson V3! This is the last
    major format that was unplayable under linux and"

    yay! like when i had to make my XINE play divx5! I only had to download the plugin, the new player version the new alsa version the new kernel version to play divx5! that's about 40M! yay! Not like crappy windows 98 that just required you to download the codec...pffft... if you don't have to rebuild your kernel to play new media content, it isn't an OS!

    "2xsai actually guesses edges and fills in the pixels."

    yeah! ZSNES can use that! There's Super Eagle mode too...both of these suck up CPU like peanuts

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  2. Let me just add the obligatory by Raul654 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Quicktime sucks...

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  3. 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.

  4. a 17 year old coder works on the project?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    just imagine what kind of viruses or other harmful code is in 2xsai!!!!!!!!! i'd never use it, or linux, would you?