- Nov 5, 2011
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The time bomb called H.264 is set to explode in 2015. Are you watching? - topic for you tube user
The time bomb called H.264 is set to explode in 2015. Are you watching? : on freesoftwaremagazine.com : http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/time_bomb_called_h264_set_explode_2015_are_you_watching
QUOTE:
'Whether we like it or not, X.264 is "the" de-facto standard on the Internet. Every time you visit Youtube, you are watching a video encoded using the X.264 standard. The video quality is great, the compression is astonishing. And so is the price. X.264 is subject to a huge number of software patents. You need to pay hefty licensing fees if you want to create X.264 files today. We, the users, are not feeling this as we are not paying a cent -- yet. This might well change in the near future: it's a bomb ready to explode.' ..
'The licensing money from X.264 are managed by MPEG-LA. They manage the "patent pools" that cover the X.264 standard.' ..
'Anybody creating software that creates or serves X.264 files is subject to pay license fees up to 5 million dollars (!). Since Flash uses X.264 (and so do you, every time you watch a Youtube video), they surely pay their fee. So so pretty much every hardware maker that makes cameras.' ..
'We, the users, are not safe. Well, we are -- only for now; however, this is a time bomb that is pretty much ready to explode: the nice gents at MPEG-LA assured us that that we won't own any royalties at least until 2015. After that? Well, who knows.' ..
'At the moment, if you want to distribute videos online you have three options:
■H.264/MP4
■OGG/Theora
■Google's WebM ' ..
'Just wait for 2015.' ..
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The time bomb called H.264 is set to explode in 2015. Are you watching? : on freesoftwaremagazine.com : http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/time_bomb_called_h264_set_explode_2015_are_you_watching
QUOTE:
'Whether we like it or not, X.264 is "the" de-facto standard on the Internet. Every time you visit Youtube, you are watching a video encoded using the X.264 standard. The video quality is great, the compression is astonishing. And so is the price. X.264 is subject to a huge number of software patents. You need to pay hefty licensing fees if you want to create X.264 files today. We, the users, are not feeling this as we are not paying a cent -- yet. This might well change in the near future: it's a bomb ready to explode.' ..
'The licensing money from X.264 are managed by MPEG-LA. They manage the "patent pools" that cover the X.264 standard.' ..
'Anybody creating software that creates or serves X.264 files is subject to pay license fees up to 5 million dollars (!). Since Flash uses X.264 (and so do you, every time you watch a Youtube video), they surely pay their fee. So so pretty much every hardware maker that makes cameras.' ..
'We, the users, are not safe. Well, we are -- only for now; however, this is a time bomb that is pretty much ready to explode: the nice gents at MPEG-LA assured us that that we won't own any royalties at least until 2015. After that? Well, who knows.' ..
'At the moment, if you want to distribute videos online you have three options:
■H.264/MP4
■OGG/Theora
■Google's WebM ' ..
'Just wait for 2015.' ..
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