Sony Mylo 2 to use On2 video decoder for YouTube compatibility

After looking at On2’s new 1080p HD-capable mobile video chipset yesterday, today there’s word that the company has licenced one of their software decoder solutions to Sony for their latest WiFi communicator. The TrueMotion VP6 video decoder will power the Flash Lite 3 functionality in the new Mylo 2, Sony’s IM, VoIP and internet device, ensuring compatibility with streaming web video such as YouTube and Google Video.

“We continue to improve the quality of our video solutions for leading handheld
device manufacturers, and the mylo communicator is one of the best examples of
mobile video products on the market today. Most of the leading user-generated
content web sites today use our Flix Engine product and VP6 compression scheme
to create and publish video, and we see the market trends moving toward mobile
video sharing and consumption” Bill Joll, president and CEO, On2 Technologies

Apparently the On2 Flix Engine is the video processing application often used to convert video files into streaming Flash-based video, with customers including Adobe, AOL, Skype, VideoEgg and Nokia.

You can read more about the Sony Mylo 2 here.

[via Phonemag]

YouTube for Mobile Update Brings Happiness to Millions of Users

By Daniel Nicholas

The update Google’s popular video sharing web site made to its Mobile service brought much joy and happiness to millions of mobile phone users, as now YouTube for Mobile can be used on handsets that can run video streaming and are supported by any 3G operator.

YouTube announced the big thing on Thursday; this update of its mobile applications will significantly expand the number of supported mobile phone technologies that can allow the viewing of the popular web sites’ millions of videos.

Until now, YouTube for Mobile was available only through deals with Verizon, Apple and Helio; but from now on, any user that owns a mobile phone running video streaming is able to access YouTube on his or her handset, as the service is supported by any 3G operator. According to YouTube, about 100 million devices will be able to access YouTube for Mobile thanks to this recent update.

In addition to this important improvement, new YouTube for Mobile features will allow users to personalize their use of the videos; they can access YouTube Favorites, Videos and Channels, as well as their accounts on their mobile phones, for example. Furthermore, from now on people will be able to upload video directly from their mobile devices, as they will also be able to rate and comment on videos directly from their phones.

The new mobile offerings will be available in 11 languages, in 17 countries.

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