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In November of 2003, On2 announced that VP6 had been chosen as a codec for China's Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD), a competitor format to DVD . Beijing -based company E-World was to be the exclusive reseller of the EVD VP6 technology in China , with On2 Technologies earning royalty payments of about $2 USD per player. Then in April of 2004 On2 announced that negotiations with E-World had broken down and that On2 would file multiple breach of contract claims against E-World in arbitration proceedings. In March of 2005, On2 announced that the arbitrator had dismissed all of On2's claims and had decided that E-World owed nothing to On2. Although E-World included VP6 to its EVD standardization proposal to the Chinese government, it is not clear what, if any, action was then taken by the government. The EVD format initiative appears to be indefinitely stalled. In January 2005, On2 announced a new VP7 codec with better compression capabilities than VP6. In August 2005, Macromedia announced they had selected VP6 as the flagship new codec for video playback in the new Flash Player 8. As of September 2006, an Open-source implementation of the decoder is part of the Libavcodec project. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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