On2 Flix
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On2 Flix is a family of Flash video encoding applications for Microsoft Windows
and Mac OS
. On2 Technologies
acquired Flix from Wildform, Inc. in May, 2005, shortly after Macromedia
announced that it would use On2's VP6
video codec
in the Flash 8 platform.
The On2 Flix Exporter is a QuickTime
plugin that enables users to export Flash video directly from QuickTime enabled video editing applications.
version of Flix called On2 Flix Engine. The Engine can be used to encode Flash video in server applications or to integrate the On2 Flix encoding engine into client applications.
(now owned by eBay
(and now only partly) had licensed current and future versions of its video compression software and had integrated it into the Beta version of Skype 2.0. No financial terms were disclosed relating to the deal.
BBC reporters use On2 for satellite phone reporting.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and Mac OS
Mac OS
Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...
. On2 Technologies
On2 Technologies
On2 Technologies , formerly known as The Duck Corporation, was a small publicly-traded company , headquartered in Clifton Park, New York, that designs video codec technology. They created a series of video codecs called TrueMotion...
acquired Flix from Wildform, Inc. in May, 2005, shortly after Macromedia
Macromedia
Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...
announced that it would use On2's VP6
VP6
On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec...
video codec
Codec
A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of "compressor-decompressor" or, more commonly, "coder-decoder"...
in the Flash 8 platform.
Products
The flagship product in the family is Flix Pro. The company also offers On2 Flix Standard, which is a stripped-down version of Pro.The On2 Flix Exporter is a QuickTime
QuickTime
QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
plugin that enables users to export Flash video directly from QuickTime enabled video editing applications.
Development kit
On2 also offers a Software Development KitSoftware development kit
A software development kit is typically a set of software development tools that allows for the creation of applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar platform.It may be something as simple...
version of Flix called On2 Flix Engine. The Engine can be used to encode Flash video in server applications or to integrate the On2 Flix encoding engine into client applications.
Clients
On December 1, 2005, On2 announced that SkypeSkype
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
(now owned by eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
(and now only partly) had licensed current and future versions of its video compression software and had integrated it into the Beta version of Skype 2.0. No financial terms were disclosed relating to the deal.
BBC reporters use On2 for satellite phone reporting.