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Not even close. Sorry. The Open Source projects are mostly based on mencoder, which itself uses reverse-engineered codecs. I don't want to argue the legalities/ethics of that here, but the bottom line is that Nokia cannot legally redistribute those codecs. Which is why we have this app, which uses commercial codecs to do the work. You can decide for yourself on the difference in quality between this project and others.
... and I'm still pissed off about Nokias attitude towards OGG. It is a free, high quality open source codec and not only does the IT not have ogg support out of the box(it is the #1 download on maemo.org), nokia is actively trying to suppress it and called it a "proprietary" format. It (almost) makes me regret purchasing my tablet.

Right, and we need *much* more than QuickTime support for the amount of video/audio formats we support.
Sorry, bad capitalization on my part. I meant Qt, not QT. Qt is a commercial cross platform toolkit from Trolltech that you could have used. It has native support for Windows/OSX/Linux/BSD/Solaris. Google used it for Google Earth. There is also a Qt 4 demo app in one of the IT repos(a text editor).

Anyway, if you ever need a beta tester for the linux version, pm me.