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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. Re:Tonight on the History Channel by General+Sherman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks for telling me everything I already knew, I really needed to know that.

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  2. Re:xine by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I realize that there are keyframe issues, but there is no doubt in my mind that players can do a LOT better than they do currently. Just adding some caching and maybe some pre-emptive frame decoding would allow responsive single-frame seeking. Besides, how common is a 10 minute keyframe interval? 10 seconds seems more realistic. There's nothing you can do about a 10 minute keyframe interval, but that's no excuse for handling a 10 second keyframe interval poorly. Also, while the mouse is being dragged around wildly, displaying only keyframes might be necessary. But when the user is moving the seek bar only slightly, trying to get to a particular spot, there is plenty of time for the decoder to catch up and start displaying the right frames.

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