Editing On2 Technologies (section)

{{Short description|American video technology company}}
{{Infobox company
| name       = On2 Technologies Inc.
| logo       = [[File:On2 Technologies Logo.svg|200px]]
| type       = [[Subsidiary]] of [[Google Inc.]]
| key_people = J. Allen Kosowsky, [[Chairman of the Board|Chairman]]<br /> Matthew C. Frost, [[Chief operating officer|COO]]<br /> Tim Reusing, [[General Counsel|GC]]<br /> James Bankoski, [[Senior Vice President|Senior VP]]<br /> Paul Wilkins, Senior VP<br /> Wayne Boomer, Senior VP<br />Yaowu Xu, Senior VP
| industry   = [[Video codec]] technology
| products   = [[TrueMotion S]], TrueMotion 2, TrueMotion RT 2.0, [[VP3]], [[VP4]], [[VP5]], TrueMotion [[VP6]], TrueMotion [[VP7]] and [[VP8]]
| parent     = [[Google]]
| foundation = {{Start date|1992}}, [[Clifton Park, New York]]
| defunct    = {{end date|2010|06|21}}
| fate       = Acquired by [[Google]]
}}

'''On2 Technologies''', formerly known as '''The Duck Corporation''',<ref>The Duck Corporation [http://www.duck.com/ On2 Technologies - The Duck Corporation], Retrieved on 2009-08-11 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102124310/http://www.duck.com/ |date=November 2, 2010 }}</ref> was a small publicly traded company (on the [[American Stock Exchange]]), founded in New York City in 1992<ref name="GPro62">{{cite magazine|title=Sega Video Will Be Duck-y|magazine=[[GamePro]]|issue=62|publisher=[[International Data Group|IDG]]|date=September 1994|page=161}}</ref> and headquartered in [[Clifton Park, New York]], that designed [[video codec]] technology. It created a series of video codecs called TrueMotion (including [[TrueMotion S]], TrueMotion 2, TrueMotion RT 2.0,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2361| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20210928/http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2361| archive-date=2021-09-28 |title=WAVE and AVI Codec Registries - RFC 2361 |date=June 1998 |access-date=2009-12-05| last1=Fleischman| first1=Eric W.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> TrueMotion [[VP3]], [[VP4|4]], [[VP5|5]], [[VP6|6]], [[VP7|7]] and [[VP8|8]]).

In February 2010, On2 Technologies was acquired by [[Google]] for an estimated $124.6 million.<ref name="acquisitionPR" />  On2's VP8 technology became the core of Google's [[WebM]] video file format.