On2 web site outage

by John Luther on December 14, 2008

Thanks to everybody who wrote to us about the outage.

Due to the ice storm here on Thursday & Friday, Clifton Park was in a state of emergency. Our building was operating fine on backup generator power, but our T1 network connection was knocked offline in the we hours of Saturday morning. There were also problems at our co-location center in Albany, so our backup web servers went offline as well. If not for the network outages, we wouldn’t have experienced any service disruption.

Thankfully everything has been restored. Our IT guys deserve huge thanks as they worked non-stop through Friday and well into Saturday afternoon to monitor the generators and then resolve the unexpected network outage. Eventually they were forced to physically drive backup disks to the co-location center Saturday morning to get us back online.

I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but this storm was horrendous & has crippled our entire region. As of this writing, there are still over 5,000 National Grid customers in Clifton Park without power and may not be restored until Tuesday or later. Fortunately our offices are in a building with ample generator backup.

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H.264 Licensing Terms in Adobe Flash Player

by John Luther on December 1, 2008

A lot of our Flix customers ask us about the H.264/AVC licensing terms and fees in Adobe Flash Player as they relate to content playback and distribution. H.264 licensing can be a complicated matter, and since we are primarily in the Flash video encoding business & not distribution, we refer people to Adobe’s H.264 FAQ for more information.

As for On2 VP6 in Flash Player, which is On2’s own format, we can comment. Unlike H.264, commercial use of VP6 in Flash does not require a separate license.

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MLB.com Drops Silverlight

by John Luther on November 17, 2008

Silverlight didn’t quite work out for MLB.com. They’re switching to Adobe Flash.

In other news, more people are accessing content onlin, says eMarketer. No surprises there.

Consumers are accessing content beyond the TV screen and much of that viewing is occurring online. Fragmentation and declines in viewership have made it more difficult for advertisers to reach audiences.

Also, IBM reports that 76 percent of consumers have watched video on their PC, an increase of 27% over last year. (See video that accompanies this post.)

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