[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Realplayer codec support

[Samuel Liddicott]

> > Do you need some inside contacts at sorensen?
> > There's a slight chance I can wangle one if you have a specific need.
>
> unfortunatelly they don't want to help in the legal way
> i don't habve the link by hand, but i read a discussion, inclouding
> forwarded mails from sorenson contacts about linux port/support of
sorenson
> codecs. they are limited by law, they have exclusive contract with apple,
> sorenson codec can't be distributed separated from apple quicktime.
> they said, that as soon as apple port quicktime to linux, they will
> immediatelly release the codec too.

But I regularly watch using windows media player stuff encoded by sorensen -
or would this be a different sorensen codec?

Sam