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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. xine by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Great! Now all it needs is an interface that doesn't suck majorly. Have you tried to use their configuration dialog? What were they thinking?

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  2. Mplayer by Gyorg_Lavode · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will mplayer be able to take advantage of these native sorensen codecs also? While mplayer plays quicktime files, they are not native and they aren't great, (specifically once you play 1 mplayer will crash if you attempt to play a second). Also, I am pretyt hooked on mplayer by now.

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  3. Who, and how? by CoughDropAddict · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who are these guys? I'm amazed at what they're pulling off, encoding and decoding all these proprietary formats. This isn't the kind of stuff that some bored college student can churn out on a lazy Sunday afternoon. And how do they manage to decode a format like Sorenson that isn't even publically documented (AFAIK)?

  4. But the important question... by ca1v1n · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will it play the audio on the trailer for The Matrix Reloaded?

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