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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:xine by vrmlknight · · Score: 0, Troll

    finally a goatse.cx replacement

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  2. Re:whining about no official linux quicktime playe by SuperBanana · · Score: 0, Troll
    so to sum up your rant, i have no idea what they did or how they accomplished it, so therefore it must be illegal.

    The Mplayer team is completely, totally, illegally distributing Quicktime(and WMP, and Real, and...) DLLs- no licenses, no nothin'. I'd be amazed if the licenses prohibited linking to the libraries, but I'd be willing to bet they do prohibit unauthorized(and especially the "partial, license-less" kind of unauthorized) distribution. I was NOT speaking of the xine team- go read the post again.

    So it's okay to beat up the 'bad guys' like Apple and Microsoft, but get pissed when someone violates the slightest part of the GPL?

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