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Mplayer Adds Sorenson v3 To the Linux Roster
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."
Advancemame, linked from this story for the Scale2x description, is a fine piece of software, and currently employed in my MAME cabinet. It's ironic, though: for my money, the scale effect really ruins the look of many arcade games, and particularly of things like pacman. While so many gamers are obsessed with getting the most out of their video cards, those interested in emulation often want the very opposite...
It's still cool voodoo, of course.
No, it means those .movs encoded with Sorenson v3. Including all newer trailers on Apple.com.
This rocks! Now I can play those Harry Potter 2 trailers for my girlfriend. The interesting thing is that I just downloaded Pre-10 last night, hoping that this codec was complete. Unfortunately, it wasn't. But the guys at MPlayer cracked the code. You rock! Thanks for making the best video player for UNIX/Linux. No thanks to Apple for being a royal pain in the butt when it comes to their video format.
Speaking of MPlayer, has anyone tried this? It is a plugin for Mozilla that uses XV overlays and MPlayer to show movies in Mozilla. I'd imagine that it works with plugin compatible apps like Opera also. I haven't tried it yet. Can anyone offer their opinions? I am looking forward to a time when I can finally play those annoying streaming WMV videos in my browser, without having to fight with some ASX file that redirects.
The *real* homepage of the 2xSaI algorithm is:
Kreed's Homepage: 2xSaI : The advanced 2x Scale and Interpolation engine
It is totally different for Scale2x, which is the link that was given. 2xSaI was orignally developed by Kreed (a.k.a. Derek Liauw) for the SNES9x Super Nintendo emulator. Oh, and technically, it IS a blurring algorithm, just a smart one.
You can find lots of info here and here.
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As far as I can tell, this was the last major codec that didn't work. Well, it kinda worked before, but sound was unplayable. As of yet though, I've not come across any other file that didn't play.
Here is a codec status page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html. It is updated frequently.
If you get MPlayer, the codec pack, and configure it for XV video output and SDL audio output on a properly accellerated system, the playback produces virtually no CPU load. It is an incredible program. I really like the fact that the GUI is completely optional, and you can just use keypresses to manipulate movie playback.
..and is horribly slow under WINE. Not to mention mplayer works in console as well as X, and anything that works with mplayer also works in mencoder.. so guess what, Sorenson -> DivX is now very simple and straightforward.
Not really (at least IMHO) they figured out how to make use of the original DLLs. You will still need the DLL's from a QuickTime 5 installation (as well as wine acc. to the description). This is not reverse engineering the codec, just figuring out how spit encoded frames to the dll and understand the decoded frames it spits back. What was done with the previous sorenson codecs (of actually figuring out how to decode) was much more impressive (at least to me).
They already use the "use dlls" methods for real codecs, except in that case they have the real linux .so's to use.
I didn't know that it existed. Here's a link that I found
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
Says that it works with Opera, so it has my attention. Does it work with streaming of WMV files?
echo "http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ unstable main" >>
apt-get install mplayer-686
apt-get install mencoder-686
Here is where his packages are now.
http://marillat.free.fr/
Well. If you don't defend your copyright. You loose it. If someone gets to reverse engineer your code and you let them. Everyone can.
I never thought I'd be the one to complain about "crack-smoking moderators" but the above statement is completely untrue.
It is true that you have to vigorously defend your trademark lest it fall into common usage (see "Q-Tip" vs. "cotton swab", "Xerox" vs. "photocopy", et al.) but the same does not apply to copyrights. (To be fair,
And reverse-engineering has nothing to do with copyrights, that's a patent issue. Barring any patent infringements, I am perfectly within my rights to create source code that produces an identical effect or product as yours, so long as I don't actually use any of your code in my proejct.
You can attempt to distribute copyright source code under a license that says "you shalll not attempt to reverse-engineer this software" but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax...
Jay (=
Don't you mean
/etc/apt/sources.list
/etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ unstable main" >>
but since that doesn't seem to work anymore, try
echo "deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main" >>
F.O.Dobbs
Why? We're doing the same as every windows app supporting the quicktime format/codecs. We're using their plugins, via their SDK. Teh only difference is that the app is native linux app, while teh DLL's are windows one, and we're using libwine to connect them. It doesn't chaneg the legal status,imho.
A'rpi
That's an insider joke by the MPlayer developers. One time a developer messed up the CVS and the punishment was to drink ten liters of coke :-). You'll see this all over the mailing lists and the CVS logs as 10l coke or sometimes 1000l coke.