Mplayer Adds Sorenson v3 To the Linux Roster

prmths writes "mplayer now plays sorenson V3! This is the last major format that was unplayable under linux and it has now been conquered! They also added the 2xsai algorithm for video scaling. This will let you increase the resolution of non-photo-like videos (anime/cartoons) by 2 times -- it's not a blurring algorithm -- 2xsai actually guesses edges and fills in the pixels."

Let the slogans begin...

[kafka93]

"I'm 2xSaI for my shorts"?

Doh!

Well...

[vasqzr]

at least the code is working, and was uploaded to CVS, but it needs some hacking to get it work... (not so bad, you need some DLLs from QT5 player and sdk, and libwine from wine-20020310 and some config.h editing) - okay, we'll work on getting this more user-friendly...

At least it DOES work :)

w00t!

[0xdeadbeef]

But mommy, why do they hurt [mplayerhq.hu] Tux like that?

Re:Well it can *almost* play sorenson!

[grub]

Someone at mplayerhq must have pissed off a /. high-up pretty bad to garner a double slashdotting. This one for the announcement, a future one for the release.

times two!

[Alsee]

2xsai actually guesses edges and fills in the pixels

and an MP3 player that doubles the number of notes in a song by guessing and filling them in! :)

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Re:Well it can *almost* play sorenson!

[Anonymous Coward]

Nonsense. Slashdot is a professional online news site, so everything posted here has been fact-checked. Next you'll be telling us that Stephen King isn't dead.

Re:Well it can *almost* play sorenson!

[jmo_jon]

we'll work on getting this more user-friendly.

user-friendly? That ought to be quick for them, just another RTFM remark in the FAQ and a short line the the manual and it'll be done. Or has the attitude changed since i last checked?

Re:Well it can *almost* play sorenson!

[mastropiero]

At least we can see cool development going on. It probably wont be long before it is usable, anyway.

On the other hand I would have preferred having a little less misleading story, I almost got up and danced in front of my friends while singing "there u go b*tches, linux is l337!".

But of course, this is /.

Re:Sweet! I was waiting for this!

[nother_nix_hacker]

This rocks! Now I can play those Harry Potter 2 trailers for my girlfriend.

For your girlfriend...riiiiggghhhtt :)

Re:Well it can *almost* play sorenson!

[ethereal]

Yeah, installing Mplayer is user friendly in the sense of "type exactly what we say for a half hour and it will likely work", not in the sense of "would you like to play XBill while we install it for you?" It's doable, it just requires a user that is friendly with the command line :)

Re:Well it can *almost* play sorenson!

[Jugalator]

From the style of that quote, it looked like it came from someone having got waaay too much coffee...

Not truly compatible.

[vegetablespork]

When I play a Sorenson video with mplayer, it fails to present me with a dialog admonishing me to "Get Quicktime Pro Now!"

Will this bug be fixed in a later release?

Re:Sweet! I was waiting for this!

[Anonymous Coward]

My girlfriend is only 10, you insensitive clod!

Re:w00t!

[RAMMS+EIN]

That's because they use win32 codecs. Obviously, it hurts Tux to have to run M$ code.