Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 14:02 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"Google confirmed today that it plans to buy digital video compression outfit On2 Technologies in an all-stock agreement, valued at $106.5m. Mountain View said On2 shareholders will be handed 60 cents worth of Google class A common shares for each outstanding share they hold in the company. Clifton Park, New Jersey-based On2 employs around 60 staff. It started life as the Duck Corporation in 1992. On2's VP6 codec is licensed by Adobe, for its Flash Player and Flash Lite 3 for mobile phones. Other major customers include AOL, Freescale, Nokia and Sun Microsystems."
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YouTube does not use VP6 at all. It was using H.263 and now it's using H.264. The "YouTube uses VP6" is just an old myth that some people keep repeating over and over again.