Duck Corporation
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The Duck Corporation, developed TrueMotion S, a codec that was used by some games for FMV sequences during the 1990s. The original office of the Duck Corporation was founded in New York City by Daniel B. Miller, Victor Yurkovsky, and Stan Marder. Miller became CEO of newly renamed On2 Technologies until Doug McIntyre was hired in late 2000, when Miller resumed his role as CTO. CEO's after McIntyre included Bill Joll and Matt Frost.
The first versions of the codec were mainly targeted at and used for full motion video scenes in computer games. Therefore they were especially fit to run on limited resources. Actually all versions of the codec compared quite favorably to their respective contemporary main competitors in terms of consumption of computational power. At first there were only hardware implementations of the codec, meant to run on special hardware boards only.
On 5 August 2009, Google offered to acquire On2 Technologies for US$106.5M in Google stock. On 7 January 2010, Google increased its takeover offer to $133.9M. On February 17, 2010, stockholders of On2 Technologies voted to accept Google's increased offer.