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by kierank 6155 days ago
There's nothing about On2 that's worth more than ~$10m.

It has quite a large customer base. Brightcove, Skype, Youtube to name a few.

Obviously not in the league of H.264 though.

EDIT: but still lossmaking...http://www.on2.com/file.php?228
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DarkShikari 6155 days ago
Youtube doesn't, and as far as I know, never did use VP6.

Additionally, I'm not so sure a large customer-base is even a good thing; everyone I've talked to who has used their VP6 encoder engine on a server farm comments on how much of a crashy, buggy piece of crap it is. This reputation is not going to help grow the business in the future even if they do produce a good product.

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kierank 6155 days ago
Yeah, you're right, youtube uses SVQ.
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DarkShikari 6155 days ago
No, they used Sorenson H.263, aka "FLV1" (I assume that's what you meant though). SVQ1 was a vector-quantizer codec used by Quicktime in the 90s, and SVQ3 is another Quicktime format which is a ripoff of H.264.
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