Why ON2 for Flash 8?

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August 14, 2005
Jens Loeffler
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Tinic Uro, Principal Engineer of the Macromedia Flash Player, gives us a nice overview, why Macromedia picked the ON2 codec as official video codec for Flash 8.

The TOP 3 reasons are:

1. Quality
2. Code Size
3. Portability

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Jens Loeffler

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