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Xine Gets Native Sorenson3 Decoding

Posted by timothy on from the one-less-thing-to-gripe-about dept.

gooofy writes "Freshly (im)ported from ffmpeg, xine 1-beta12 finally has native support for Sorenson SVQ3 video. This means that you're finally able to watch the latest quicktime trailers on any xine supported hardware platform, not just on x86. Other goodies in this release include support for ogg/theora, playback of cd/dvd over the network, improved handling of mpeg-2 files (resyncing) and many detail improvements."

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  1. My question by ABetterRoss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it work on OS X?

    Oh wait... I've got quicktime. Sorry.

  2. Re:Applaude for 2 reasons by elid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, Mac doesn't seem to have much of a problem with Quicktime!

  3. x86 by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny
    This means that you're finally able to watch the latest quicktime trailers on any xine supported hardware platform, not just on x86.

    Yes, all those macos-on-ppc people are having so much trouble with that.

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  4. Re:Applaude for 2 reasons by tincho_uy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can always compile it without css support if you wanted to stay legal...

  5. Re:More open source fragmentation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    First of all, Xine is not a web calendar written in PHP. It's written in Perl.

    And Mplayer isn't free, you have to download it.

    Sheesh.

  6. Re:But it's illegal... by Aliencow · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's amusing is getting modded up when you confuse headlines...

  7. Re:Who, and how? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reverse engineering the format is the interesting part. Hiding from the patent lawyers is the exciting part.

  8. Re:Who, and how? by fireman+sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they may be using SCO proprietry code to get to an enterprise level so quickly. Call in the laywers!

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  9. Re:Mplayer by Gyorg_Lavode · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes, because it's very likely that doing:
    ./configure --enable-gui
    make
    su -c "make install" functions completely differently when I type it. I guess I must have missed the "--dont-crash-on-quicktime-movies" option.

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  10. Re:Illegal? by mythr · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's only breaking the law in countries where idiocy is encouraged in leaders. That means you're safe... Um... So, um... yeah, it probably is. :/

  11. Re:Applaude for 2 reasons by shibbydude · · Score: 1, Funny

    You don't even deserve a reply. Next time you feel like saying something smartass-racist just shut the hell up and get over it. Color doesn't matter. Do you have a small penis? I thought so...

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