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Mobiclip, formally known as Actimagine is a French based, research and development company that develops mobile video and mobile TV software, situated in Paris. The company currently has a subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan and offices in Singapore and California. Mobiclip are known for their Mobiclip Video Codec. As of February 2012, it was revealed on Mobiclip's official website that the company became a subsidiary of Nintendo. [1]
The codec was licensed by Nintendo as a video compression technology that offered high quality playback with respect to battery life on the Game Boy Advance, and it has since been used on games for the Nintendo DS , such as Metroid Prime Hunters and games in the Professor Layton series. It has also been licensed by various other companies, such as Sony Pictures Digital and Fisher-Price.
The Mobiclip Video Codec was used in encoding the various animated cutscenes in The Legendary Starfy.
External links
- Actimagine on Wikipedia.