Coxnet said it would begin using software from On2 Technologies Inc. to enable enhanced video support on its newspapers’ Web sites.

On2’s Flix Engine and Flix Publisher support VP6, the advanced video format used in Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash Player software.

The On2 apps will allow Cox sites to encode and publish news content that’s created in VP6, the vendor said, as well as reduce the time needed for Cox to encode source material to be posted on the papers’ Web sites.

Coxnet papers using the software will include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Austin (Texas) American-Statesman and Palm Beach (Fla.) Post.