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An interesting note, On2 provides one of the codecs that Flash supports for video. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Codec_support http://en.wikipedia.o
by sosuke 17y ago
An interesting note, On2 provides one of the codecs that Flash supports for video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Codec_support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Codec_support
- wmf 17y agoYes, I suspect basically all of On2's revenue was from people buying VP6 encoders for Flash video. And then Flash started supporting H.264...
- DarkShikari 17y agoAnd even those customers were hardly satisfied. Facebook used to use VP6 before they switched to x264--from what I recall hearing in my time there, the On2 software was a disaster. Unreliable, slow, and overpriced--$1500 per core per year! From my experience, the primary reaction of many companies to the announcement of Flash H.264 support was not "yay, we can save bandwidth with H.264", but rather "oh god now we don't have to deal with VP6".
- gommm 17y agoOh I remember working with the On2 linux engine in my previous work..... After using it for a while, we ended up moving back to ffmpeg/mencoder, much more reliable...