Category Archives: General

VP7: On2 Just Won’t Quit

I was just thinking the other day about whether On2 would release VP7. This is the organization that brought us TrueMotion 1, TrueMotion 2, VP 3.0, VP 3.1, VP 4.0, VP 5.0, VP 6.0, and VP 6.1, not to mention VP 6.2. VP70 just seems like a natural progression.

What does ‘VP’ stand for anyway? I have never read any definitive answer. However, if On2’s technology focus is any clue, it stands for “Video Predictor”, owing to On2’s almost religious devotion to prediction-based compression algorithms.

Michael Roitzsch tipped me off that On2 has, indeed, unleashed their VP7 codec upon the world. True to form, their literature asserts that VP7 “rUleZ!!1!” and that “MicRo$$oFt is teh suck!1!!!” (slightly paraphrased, they state their points using graphs).

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Denver Presentation

Thanks again to all the Denver-area folks who came out to see my presentation at the CLUE meeting. I had a great time and, judging by the reaction to all the cheesy multimedia clips, it looks like you all did, as well. Here is a redux of the intro clip:

Lopez, the narcotics king

That’s right! It’s Lopez– Lopez, the narcotics king. Remember: He has the mansion, he has the money, he has the drugs, he has the POWER. To say nothing of the receding hairline. It turns out that Digital Leisure still has the MPEG trailer for this game (Drug Wars) on their downloads page. Check out the whole thing. Always a crowd pleaser!

Just FYI, any other Colorado-area Linux/computer groups who would like a fun presentation on multimedia technology (complete with silly multimedia clips), just drop me an email. Have computer and projector, will travel. I always enjoy doing these talks (in fact, just try to get me to shut up about multimedia technology).

Denver, CO Multimedia Presentation

I will be doing a presentation about multimedia technology soon. If you are in Denver, CO, USA, or a nearby area, check out my “Multimedia on Linux” presentation for the Colorado Linux Users And Enthusiasts (CLUE) group near the Denver Tech Center. Tuesday, March 8, free to the public. The group congregates around 6:30pm, my presentation is at 7:00pm. See their website for more details and specific directions and maps.

VP6* And Omelettes

Slacked off in the posting for a little while there. But you will be comforted to know that I always have at least a half-dozen articles in development for this blog.

According to the aggregated site statistics, “vp62 codec” is, far and away, the top search string that drives people to this site. “vp61 codec” brings up a distant second. This tells me that people are actually interested in On2’s VP6 line of codecs even though I may not encounter much media in those formats. If you are interested in the codec format, RE efforts on the Java modules are proceeding slowly and tediously.

People actually subscribe to this blog via RSS. Fun to know.

This blog is also well on its way to hijacking key food concepts. Another search string driving traffic to the site is “making omelettes”.