Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
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Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#2what are the open source alternatives?
Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#3Aren't VP9 and AV1 supposed to be "royalty free formats" ?
Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#4what are the open source alternatives?
This is for patent licensing. Using an open source implementation doesn't get rid of your obligation to license the patents for it.
Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#5That's just trying to promote a competitor. This is more or less what Fraunhofer did with the mp3 license, which resulted in bunch of new, and better formats.
Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#6what are the open source alternatives?
This is for patent licensing. Using an open source implementation doesn't get rid of your obligation to license the patents for it.
In most countries the H.264 patents have already expired, for instance in Europe they have expired, but in USA not yet (in USA most patents should expire towards the end of next year).
So that firm might try to squeeze every penny they can before the expiration of the patents.
Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#7what are the open source alternatives?
AV1, as well as the older On2 codec series it was based off of (VP9, VP8, etc).
Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#8what are the open source alternatives?
VP9, AV1
Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#9Re: Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
#10what are the open source alternatives?
In most countries, including in Europe, the H.264 patents have already expired. There you can use H.264 freely.
Some patents remain valid in USA, Brazil and a few other countries.