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August 23, 2007
On On2
On On2: Dan Rayburn of Seeking Alpha interviews Bill Joll, On2's CEO, for perspective on this week's announcement of H264 support in Adobe Flash Player. Key takeaway is that different codecs serve different needs, and that the On2 VP6 codec in Adobe Flash Player 8 and above will remain in use for a long time -- advantages include easier licensing, easier decompression. "When it comes to the ecosystem for online video, no one solution works best for every type of content customer. This holds true for compression, hosting, delivery, content management and many of the other technical pieces that make up online video. One format, codec or bitrate is not going to replace another and we'll always have multiple choices in the market based on the fact that customers all have different needs." There's also an observation in the middle about how video codecs are moving into the hardware.
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 23, 2007 07:39 AM
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