Re: Linux player for Sorenson video
> I downloaded a QuickTime (tm) .mov-ie from Apple's
> movie trailers sites. Is there any way to play them
> under GNU/Linux? I thought the non-free xanim could
> do it. But it seems I've just put a good two-hour+
> download to waste. I would appreciate somebody's
> "working" experience. Details follow:
>
> alpha:~/movies$ xanim final_fantasy_tlr2_480.mov
> XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C)
> 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved
> Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)
xanim's website explains why it's unable to play videos with
the Sorenson codec. I'm pretty sure that there's no other
player that could do it on *nix either. You're out of luck...
Hall
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