[xine-devel] Convert Sorenson3 to something else?

[<ran...@ya...>]

I seem to recall that someone claimed to have
successfully reverse engineered the Sorenson 3 codec.
Now I understand that this work is unlikely to become
part of Xine because of various patent issues.
However, suppose that this work was used instead to
recode various Quicktime movies into a format that
Xine could read? MOV files are freely available on the
Web, so the content could hardly be called
"copy-protected". The DMCA would therefore not seem to
apply. All Xine users really want to do is watch these
trailers, which they *could* do anyway by downloading
Quicktime for free.

Are there specs available for an MPEG4 encoder?

Chris


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