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

[Felix Buenemann]

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 14:58, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
> > > But I regularly watch using windows media player stuff encoded by
>
> sorensen -
>
> > > or would this be a different sorensen codec?
> >
> > heh?
> > i've never heard about any relation between windows media and sorenson.
>
> they
>
> > are at the opposite side of the business, i doubt they will ever meat,
> > unless m$ buy apple or vice versa
> >
> > if you have such sample, run mplayer -v on it, and show us the output
> > (-v prints the headers containing codec info)
>
> http://www.lds.org/broadcast/gc/april2002/1/english250.asx
> contains this:
> <ref href =
> "mms://a1493.m.akastream.net/7/1493/1076/3cae2742/sorenson.download.akamai.
>c om/1076/GC_04-2002/session1/english250.asf" />
>
> The use of sorensen there is another clue I hadn't noticed.

It's windows media 8 encoded, which is an mpeg4 like codec.
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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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