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Originally Posted by yearn
Ok, maybe I was mistaken. But I know I can download a flv file off youtube with toutube downloader, then open coreplayer and browse to the file and it plays it and looks really good??
So whats the difference? im confused?
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TrueMotion VP6 is a
video codec developed by
On2 Technologies as a successor to earlier efforts such as
VP3 and
VP5. The VP6 codec has been used in products for broadcasting in the field, such as with
BBC reporters and
QuickLink software. This codec is used by
Adobe Flash and
Flash Video files.
In November 2003, On2 announced that VP6 had been chosen as a codec for China's
Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD), a competitor format to
DVD.
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. Then in April 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 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.
In August 2005,
Macromedia announced they had selected VP6 as the flagship new codec for video playback in the new
Flash Player 8.
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.