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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. MPEG-2 in QT player? by TheSync · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I need a viewer for MPEG-2 stored in QuickTime format (i.e. .mov main file, with .mpeg and .aiff video and audio files).

    I was hoping Apple would have a QuickTime player with MPEG-2, but evidently not yet. Any ideas?

  2. The sound you're hearing by Multiple+Sanchez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is Sorenson's lawyers cracking their knuckles.

  3. Great! by fialar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Maybe Debian will fix the XVideo bug so I can play my Mplayer movies with Xv instead of the crappy x11!

  4. Re:why is that informative? by moZer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    RedHat, Mandrake and SuSE are all installable "across the net with a single floppy". And they all have apt or equivalent tools included. That's what you will learn by not using Debian exclusively.

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  5. Re:why is that informative? by amccall · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Comparing Apt and RPM is comparing apples to oranges. They are not equivalents. Dpkg (.deb) can, however, be compared against RPM. Further, Apt has been ported to allow use of RPM packages.

    The fact that this very simple issue has escaped you reveals that you are in no position to compare RPM and DPKG, or update systems built on those, in any clear and/or consistant manner.

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  6. Re:why is that informative? by Zorikin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    > Apt has been ported to allow use of RPM packages.

    Debian packages still tend to be more consistant, since there is only one independent distribution (Debian) which uses them. Other deb-based distros are based on Debian, like Mandrake used to be based on RedHat. A deb can target Debian and it will work on any sane (read: Debian-compatable) dpkg-based distro. It's like magic!

    Meanwhile, back in reality, every RPM-based distro has its own incompatable set of policies, requiring each distro to have its own RPM file for many packages. Browse rpmfind.net a while if you don't believe me.

    Maybe LSB mitigates this problem, I can't say.