Vendetta: A Christmas Story

Mundane Barbie writes "This is the funniest and the coolest online independent movies that I've seen since the original South Park. It's definitely a geek classic, just in time for the holidays. It's got Santa, and it's got guns. I've seen it posted at Newgrounds and also at their official site. Happy holidays! " Woh. This is /not/ for the easily offended - but if you thought the South Park movie was amusing, than you'll probably appreciate this.

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So it's true..

[prodeje]

Hemos does not use linux.
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"We must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom."

Re:Boo-freakin'-hoo...

[redled]

I wholeheartidly agree. Sure, you like linux. Does that mean you can knock some company for not spending its resources to produce code for it? Hell no. Apple's priority is of course to make software for the leading platforms, windows and mac. Does that mean that they are a group of anti-linux nazis? Of course not. I would imagine support for Sorenson to appear eventually -I don't think apple is ignoring the linux community altogether. And one other point: Hemos didn't install linux, download the movie, try and get it working, and discover it won't run on linux. GASP! Do you really think Hemos has the time to do all that, for the sake of a few idiots who want to complain? And if he did, should that fact have stopped him from posting the story? There are plenty of slashdotters who run an OS thats not called "linux", believe it or not, and there's no reason why they should be denied the information.

P.S.: How much did you pay for the slashdot service? How much did you pay to download the movie? How much have you payed to Apple to develop software lately?

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Partial mirrors

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Since the main site is probably about to explode, I thought I'd point out some mirrors of at least the pages, if not the movies.

Main site
news.html
videos.html
about.html

Alternate vendetta link - same codec

[localman]

Hey all.
I'm (one of) the idiot(s) responsible for Vendetta.
I'm currently visiting family, and my server is on the other side of the country. It is dead. There is another copy of the entire film at my machine at work - we'll see how long that one survives.
I am truly sorry about the sorenson thing - I had no idea anyone would watch it at all, let alone the entire slashdot community.
If anyone can convert it to another format, they are welcome to do so.
Peace, Happy holidays, and thanks.

here is a mirror - really

[crayz]

http://lecb68.linkexchange.com:8002/vendetta.mov

All credit goes to localman, I'm just not sure anyone will see his post down there, but please moderate it up.

Re:Boo-freakin'-hoo...

[cybersquid]

That's not the point. Here's a quote from the xanim home page:

There is a new Star Wars trailer that has been recently released and it uses the currently unsupported Sorenson Video codec. I have contacted Sorenson about licensing their codec. They responded that Apple won't allow them to license it to others. You may want to nicely send a single email message to Sorenson and Apple asking about unix and/or xanim support for the Sorenson video codec.

For the record, I would gladly add support for Sorenson if allowed to.

I find it sad how disingenuous and clue-free Apple continues to be. They lobby heavily to get QuickTime accepted as an Internet standard, then refuse to allow non-Mac/Win folks access. This is consistent with their recent history. Bundled browser: Microsoft. Bundled Java: Microsoft.

One would almost think Microsoft had given them a large quantity of money... Naww! ;-)

Curious about this business plan failure thing

[Zico]

Sorensen opens its codecs: Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia, Open Source coders, etc., create new products utilizing the codecs. Cost incurred creating and maintaining the codecs by Sorenson: substantial. Money made by Sorensen: $0.00. (That's a successful business model??)

Sorensen keeps its codecs closed: Apple pays Sorensen licensing fees to use the codecs in their product. Cost incurred creating and maintaining the codecs by Sorensen: substantial. Money made by Sorensen: millions of dollars.

Signal_11 claims that Sorensen is doomed because someone will eventually get mad and reverse engineer the codecs. Let's leave aside the fact that this has been said for some time now, and still has never been done. Even if it happens, Sorensen will still have made millions of dollars that they would never have seen if they just gave away the code right off the bat. That's a lot of money that can be spent improving the product, or developing other ones.

Signal_11 presents it as some proven fact that this is a doomed business plan, but the real fact is that the Open Source business model still has never been proven as a substantial money-maker.

Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

Re:What crap

[ralphclark]

First of all, Apple doesn't even own Sorenson, so stop bashing them without reason.

This is a very misleading statement, if not a bald lie. The reason Sorenson won't open up the codec is because Apple won't let them, it's written into their agreement. Apple are indeed attempting to corner the market in Internet video, which is directly against what most Slashdot readers stand for: open standards. you might not agree but I'm 100% certain you are in the minority at least amongst Slashdot readers.

Anyway, what's with the bad attitude? I mean, all the four-letter words - can't you disagree without being rude and offensive? I think it's fairly obvious to everybody that it's you that needs to grow up.

Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction

Re:Sorenson != Apple

[ralphclark]

a far easier proposal would be that some company that makes an existing player could license the codec.

I believe Apple have an exclusive agreement so that just isn't possible at present.

Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction

Boo-freakin'-hoo...

[punkass]

Okay, so Sorenson isn't supported by Linux yet...boo-hoo...and Sorenson is a CSS project, so it must be bad, right? Give it up...when you all bought into Linux, you took the bad as well as the good...open-source software and a community of support is great, but you also bought into not always having the latest toys from every company in the industry, simply because not every vendor is interested and/or can support twelve different OSes. Want Sorenson? Start a campaign to let apple know that there's a market for it on Linux...or write your own codec, or converter, or something, anything...but don't do the /. bitch-and-moan because not every technology his handed to you on a silver frickin' platter...this is the price you pay for your OS...Windows users pay in stability and price, Mac pays for their OS in the fact that they deal with one company for all their hardware...every OS has its drawbacks, Linux included. Don't like it? Then change it, but don't complain here.


In the meantime, go to your local library or university and use one of their Windows or Mac machines to view the video.

Re:can xanim handle it?

[finkployd]

CmdrTaco/ Hemos: Stop posting tis boring garbage you call "news."

Here is a concept:
Maybe it's their site, and they can post what they want. The constant flood of newbies in here who not only feel the need to view stories they have no interest in, but post complaints as well, is really annoying.
It's really simple folks, when you create a site, you can post any story you want, when you are visiting someone else's site, they may have some stuff that doesn't interest you. With me so far? Didn't think so.

I'll make it simple for all of you, if it doesn't interest you, don't read it. I know the first impulse is to click on the link and then get offended like someone MADE you read it, but resist this urge. Just walk away. If there is nothing here that interests you, maybe you should check out ZDNet. Go tell them how to run their site.

Finkployd