Flash Video Coming to Mobile Phones

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It looks like at long last, video is coming around to mobile devices. Andy Plesser talked with Bill Joll, the CEO of On2 at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona about the possibility. Campbell Anderson has been talking a lot about this, and it looks like an exciting development for Flash people. Some of the details:

Beginning this year, Flash 8 and 9 files will be transcoded for streaming video to mobile devices.  News of this development will be announced next week at the 3GSM World Congress, the huge wireless industry trade show in Barcelona.

The new system for wireless transcoding is called Flix Engine 3GPP.  It will initially support the H.263 and AMR-NB 3GPP formats.  On2 has the exclusive rights to transcode Flash files.

[tags]Flash Video, Mobile, Mobile video[/tags]

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  • http://blog.xsive.co.nz Campbell

    Hey Ryan, the thing that worries me is:

    “On2 has the exclusive rights to transcode Flash files.”

    I worry that while enabling the larger content distributers one central stardard way to deliver flash video (80ish % of video on the web) to handsets, It kills smaller people like me as On2 previously have charged like wounded Bulls.

    It all seems apart of some big Adobe master plan that is slowly unfolding in news releases. Verisign Peer to Peer in Flash media server, rumblings of Adobe IPTV application, although I am begining to believe more and more that this may have been some sort of a primer to possible applications. Anyone wanna make FlashIPTV….. Im in!!

  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell

    For what it’s worth, I’ve got very little additional info at this point. I saw the press release on Thursday, and the quote from Francisco in there, but I waited for more info before pointing to it.
    http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-07-2007/0004522032&EDATE=

    The Adobe Mobile staffers have been travelling to the 3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona the past few days, so I’m not sure when I’ll get some face-to-face for their perspective on it. There are usually other announcements at 3GSM, so maybe a few days will put a clearer context around it.

    Re: “master plan”, I see it more as a goal, and many groups within Adobe trying different approaches to get closer to that goal — the goal is to make it easy for any thinking person to publish rich interactions, to anyone, anytime, any kind of device. There are lots of independent activities to try to bring this about.

    I haven’t heard more of the VeriSign/Kontiki deal since it broke, but some more came out on the Antepo angle last week:
    http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2007/02/antepo_info.cfm

    jd/adobe

  • http://blog.xsive.co.nz Campbell

    Hey John,

    Yeah thats the link I quoted in my blog.

    “mobile handsets and embedded processors for set top boxes and other portable and mobile devices.”

    Which is what made me believe the IPTV things flying around were more primers to what my be possible soon. Gazing into the cyrstal ball sorta stuff. Please keep us posted though!
    I love how Adobe is crossing platforms. Great stuff!

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  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell
  • http://polyGeek.com oz

    Just when I was about to buy a new cellphone. Now I’ll have to wait. Does anyone have any thoughts on how long we’ll have to wait before getting FL3 phones in our hands here in the US?

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Great question Oz, and I’m not sure If/when I find out more, I’ll let you know!

  • http://polygeek.com oz

    I was looking at the Samsung Ultra Smart F700 with gadget lust. Maybe it will be upgradeable to FL3, because I want it now, now, now. :-)

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