Video to Your Mobile Phone with Flash
I just caught this press release from On2, the people who created the codec for Flash video in version 8. It looks like they are planning on showing off their new codec, Flix Live 8, at the Fall VON 2006 conference in Boston.
There isn’t a lot of news here, but being able to deliver high quality video content to phones with Flash is something that will be a major advantage for the Flash Platform, and it’s something to keep an eye on. If anyone is planning to go, drop me a line. Could this portend some Flash 8 features in the next version of FlashLite?
Update: There are some great comments below, from people who know way more about this than I do. Thanks guys for shedding some light and adding to the info.
Posted in Flash Player, Flash Video, Rich Internet Applications
September 11th, 2006 at 10:14 am
The Flix Live 8 application is to provide live Flash 8 VP6 FLV’s to a FMS server.
They sell a on2 Live SDK for some big bucks. Right now the Flash Player only has the Spark encoder in it. I doubt we’ll ever get a on2 VP6 encoder, could license or technical nobody is telling.
The On2 VP7 codec technology for real-time video messaging is separate from the Flix Live 8 stuff.
Over all though the “end-to-end solution for mobile video” they are presenting will be interesting to follow.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Forgot the link to the “On2 Flix Live 8″ prelease:
http://on2.com/company/news-room/press-releases/?id=362
“Commercial licensing for On2 Flix Live will be priced at $999/year. Discounted volume pricing will be available for qualified content delivery networks (CDNs). Interested parties should contact sales@on2.com.”
September 11th, 2006 at 10:36 am
I’m not sure on this. None of the Flash Lite players have either the Flash 7 sorenson, or Flash 8 on2 decoders built into the player, so instead Flash Lite uses the hardware 3gp/mp4 (etc) rendering provided by the phone in a direct-to-stage fashion. Must this mean Flix is also outputting a “traditional” mobile video format like 3gp?
September 11th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Ciao
the FL SDK is sold to mobile phone manifactures which then decide which features to implement and how. For video and audio they use standards. Not sure they would implement Flash video on their handsets.
Also all the audio/video codecs are optimized for the 2G/3G wireless networks.
Alessandro
September 11th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Wow, this is great stuff guys, thanks for all of the responses. It seems like this isn’t really big news, and in fact this may not be Flash video on phones, but rather Flash video being converted to typical phone formats. Thanks again for making it clearer for me!
August 30th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Thanks and my phone plays flash videos
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