A new application enables Adobe’s Flash Video to play smoothly on mobile phones. The  transcoding system will be unveiled this week at 3GSM in Barcelona.The technology has been created by On2 Technologies, a video compression company based in the  U.S. 

The company’s video compression technology is licensed to Adobe for use in Flash 8 and 9.  The video compression software is also sold directly to content developers and video sharing sites.

The new system for wireless transcoding is called Flix Engine 3GPP.  It will initially support the H.263 and AMR-NB 3GPP formats.  On2 has the exclusive rights to transcode Flash files.Content developers and carriers will have the ability to transcode Flash files and make them available directly to wireless users. The system provides compression of video files, making them as little as one quarter the size of the original files. 

Making video files smaller is of crucial interest to wireless carriers, many who are daunted by the expected bandwidth demands of streaming video.

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They shown clearly how video appears at different frame rate. Very intresting!
And definately a enormous growth in flash video.

Read press release via on2 here

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Barcelona, Spain (PRWEB) February 12, 2007 – SolidLabs, a leading developer of premium mobile content and applications and provider of content aggregation services, has announced the release of GLOW, a FlashLite mobile chat client. GLOW is based on ChatBlazer, a long-time industry leader in chat and instant messaging.SolidLabs will unveil the new FlashLite client at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 12-15 in booth number 7F57.

The launch of GLOW’s new Flash Lite client makes it the very first cross platform mobile chat application with both Java and FlashLite clients. Most mobile chat solutions use SMS to deliver individual messages across the mobile network and thus only enable mobile users to communicate with other mobile users. Other chat applications exist that enable mobile users to chat with both mobile and computer-based users, but only to users with an account on the same network.

Features:

• Connect with friends using popular IM services, including MSN, ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo!
• Chat across multiple platforms and with desktop friends on Macs and PCs
• Engage in multi-party chat and web conferencing
• Send and receive SMS messages
• Customize the look and feel of the user interface
• Create dynamic user profiles
• Access public and themed chat rooms.
• Create their own Private chat rooms with the option to password protect them.

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Flash Home, a new cool product by adobe which enables you to deliver rich, dynamic home screens consistently across a broad range of handsets.

Flash Home is a flexible, white-label home screen solution that combines customizable home screens with live data services to provide subscribers with personalized, engaging experiences across handsets.

With Flash Home, you can embed data services and active content into home screens and easily promote new services tailored for various market segments, extending and differentiating your brand in a highly visual way.

Features :

• Flexible, data-enabled home screens
• On-device catalog for easy discovery, preview, and management of home screens
• Support for rich media, including FLV files, text, audio, and vector graphics
• Over-the-air updates of branded user interfaces
• Extensible architecture
• Powerful mobile authoring capabilities

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Adobe today announced that support for video will be integrated in the next generation of Adobe® Flash Lite™ software, Adobe’s award-winning Flash® Player runtime specifically designed for mobile phones. Flash Lite 3, expected to be released to manufacturers in the first half of 2007.

“Video support in Flash Lite will revolutionize the way users engage with mobile content and open up new revenue opportunities for developers worldwide,” said Al Ramadan, senior vice president for Mobile and Device Solutions at Adobe. “This release will allow users to view vibrant video content from popular Internet sites like YouTube or MySpace and enable developers to create new, dynamic applications across a variety of mobile and consumer electronics platforms.”

Great news for flash lite developers 🙂

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