Lenovo Skylight smartbook Linux Interface

Lenovo has been working to solve the challenge of video support and playback on its custom Skylight smartbook, and looks to have chosen a solution from Sorenson Media.

The Spark video decoder has been used in prior versions of Flash and other Sorenson codecs used in prior versions of Quicktime. Likely a major reason for Lenovo’s choice, the Spark decoder is specifically optimized for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset.

There’s no specific word on what types of video playback will be enabled, but we can only hope HD streaming video will be supported in one form or another. Perhaps Lenovo is waiting for a bit wider support of HTML5 as well?