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]