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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."

2 of 301 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

  2. 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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