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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. Re:Windows Media Player Killer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, no.

  2. Re:times two! by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually similar types of things are done for audio resampling. You use different algorithms to guess at what the new samples should be. It sounds much better than just duplicating the old data.

    Actually it's much more akin to the texture anti-aliasing done by graphics cards, but still.

  3. Not the first... by Fluffy+the+Cat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the last major format that was unplayable under linux and it has now been conquered!

    Codeweavers have been willing to sell you a product that allows Quicktime playback for ages. The only real advantages the new mplayer code offers are it being integrated into a more generic media player, and it being free as in beer. You're still stuffed on non-x86 platforms.

  4. Re:Wine...Blech by Captain+Morgan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It requires Wine. Blech! And to think I thought they had actually cracked the codec.

    I'm not sure what the issue is here. They can make it require only the wine libraries that are responsible for loading and interfacing with the dll, this would be seamless and would be packaged with the mplayer binaries. You probably wouldn't even notice. Running the native dlls is much easier and legal, compared with reverse engineering a copyrighted and patented codec.

  5. Re:Crossover by TheABomb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Flash: Native for Linux
    Realplayer: Native for Linux
    Trillian: GAIM

    What's the point in using Crossover?

    --
    MSIE: The world's most standards-complaint web browser.