On2 Announces iPhone, iPod, QuickTime Support

On2 Technologies announced today at Macworld Conference and Expo 2008 that it has released a new update to its popular Flix Engine for creating Apple iPhone compatible video. Flix Engine is a leading server side encoding platform used by a large number of Web 2.0 websites and leading enterprises for creating video in multiple formats, including video for Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9, H.264 and 3GPP. As a result of this announcement, Flix Engine now also supports Apple QuickTime files for iPhone and iPod, providing video programmers and service providers support for the leading video formats for web and mobile video within a single encoding platform.

"Flix Engine is already the video encoding platform of many prominent and well known IP video services, including leading user generated content and web video sites," said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2 Technologies. "With support for iPhone, we are adding the capability for service providers to now reach one of the breakthrough video products that has recently been introduced in the market, as well as the video iPod. Importantly, service providers can efficiently purpose content for multiple platforms simultaneously with Flix Engine."

On2 Flix Engine is a video encoding software development kit (SDK) with industry standard API’s for building encoding applications. Flix Engine is available in Windows and Linux versions. Currently shipping, the new update is provided as a free upgrade to Flix Engine.