[ Thanks to Miguel
Freitas for this link. ]
The xine team has released the version 0.9.11 of their GPL’d
media player application. xine is capable of playing back a wide
variety of media formats including DVD, MPEG, AVI, ASF, Apple
Quicktime (MOV) and others. Notable in this release is the first
free software implementation of the Sorenson Video algorithm, used
to encode video streams in many Quicktime files.
Changes since last release:
Note that Sorenson decoder only covers the SVQ1 variant and not
the more recent SV3 variant used to encode the Star Wars Episode II
trailers. Also, the decoder does not handle the QDesign sound
formats that are commonly used in Sorenson videos. (However it
seems that someone is actively working on those!)
For those wondering about the “Lara Croft Community edition”
name, it comes the fact that Tomb Raider trailer was the first
Sorenson video ever decoded under Linux. Episode I trailers are
also playable with xine.
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