TrueMotion VP6 is a video codec developed by On2 Technologies as a successor to earlier efforts such as VP3 and VP5. A video Codec is a device or Software that enables Video compression and/or decompression for digital video On2 Technologies ( formerly known as The Duck Corporation, is a small publicly-traded company (on the American Stock Exchange) headquartered in Tarrytown Theora is an open and royalty-free Lossy Video compression technology being developed by the Xiph VP5 is a video Codec which was created by On2 Technologies in February 2002. The VP6 codec has been used in products for broadcasting in the field, such as with BBC reporters and QuickLink software.
In November of 2003, On2 announced that VP6 had been chosen as a codec for China's Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD), a competitor format to DVD. The Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD is an optical medium-based digital audio/video format developed to provide a means for playing DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is Beijing-based company E-World was to be the exclusive reseller of the EVD VP6 technology in China, with On2 Technologies earning royalty payments of about $2 USD per player. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National Then in April of 2004 On2 announced that negotiations with E-World had broken down and that On2 would file multiple breach of contract claims against E-World in arbitration proceedings. In March of 2005, On2 announced that the arbitrator had dismissed all of On2's claims and had decided that E-World owed nothing to On2. Although E-World included VP6 to its EVD standardization proposal to the Chinese government, it is not clear what, if any, action was then taken by the government. The EVD format initiative appears to be indefinitely stalled.
In January 2005, On2 announced a new VP7 codec with better compression capabilities than VP6. TrueMotion VP7 is a Video codec developed by On2 Technologies as a successor to earlier efforts such as VP3, VP5 and TrueMotion VP6
In August 2005, Macromedia announced they had selected VP6 as the flagship new codec for video playback in the new Flash Player 8. Macromedia was a North American graphics and Web development Software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products The Adobe Flash Player is a widely distributed proprietary multimedia and application player created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe
As of September 2006, an open-source implementation of the decoder is part of the libavcodec project, though producing or dealing with VP6 video streams inside libavcodec/libavformat seems to be discouraged and/or refused due to clashes between the ffmpeg's developers and On2 technologies by a claim of Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets Infringement made by the corporation itself. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge libavcodec is a Free software / Open source LGPL -licensed library of Codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data it is written in the
See also
External links
- On2 VP6 Website
- Flash Player Principal Engineer Tinic Uro's thoughts on why VP6 was chosen over H.264
- 2007 IDC Report on On-Demand Video Transcoding
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