Google open sources VP8 video codec [modified]
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This could change everything, or nothing at all? Is it a two-fingered salute to MS and Apple who currently control the closed H.264 standard? It'll be interesting to see how slowly it takes MS/Apple to build this new codec into their products, as they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264 Posted on the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/google_chrome_announcement/[^] james
modified on Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:40 AM
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This could change everything, or nothing at all? Is it a two-fingered salute to MS and Apple who currently control the closed H.264 standard? It'll be interesting to see how slowly it takes MS/Apple to build this new codec into their products, as they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264 Posted on the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/google_chrome_announcement/[^] james
modified on Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:40 AM
James Brown wrote:
they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264
Wow. Why did I not know this? A bunch of "clicks" just happened in my head. :doh:
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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This could change everything, or nothing at all? Is it a two-fingered salute to MS and Apple who currently control the closed H.264 standard? It'll be interesting to see how slowly it takes MS/Apple to build this new codec into their products, as they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264 Posted on the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/google_chrome_announcement/[^] james
modified on Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:40 AM
James Brown wrote:
their products, as they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264
That's not true. At least Microsoft pays a lot more to license H.264 codecs than it receives from the license fees. Microsoft is on the both ends: licensor and licensee.
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This could change everything, or nothing at all? Is it a two-fingered salute to MS and Apple who currently control the closed H.264 standard? It'll be interesting to see how slowly it takes MS/Apple to build this new codec into their products, as they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264 Posted on the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/google_chrome_announcement/[^] james
modified on Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:40 AM
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James Brown wrote:
they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264
Wow. Why did I not know this? A bunch of "clicks" just happened in my head. :doh:
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Wow. Why did I not know this?
Well it is not entirely true. H.264 licensor are a pool of companies: Apple and Microsoft among them. They license the technology to people who build encoders, build decoders and broadcast h.264. Now Microsoft also includes H.264 encoders/decoders in Windows. They have to pay license fees for doing that. It turns out that amount which Microsoft pays to the pool is less than the amount it receives.
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James Brown wrote:
they currently make a c**p load of $$$ out of licencing fees for H.264
Wow. Why did I not know this? A bunch of "clicks" just happened in my head. :doh:
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I don't know what the actual dollar amounts are; but I've read that "fair and reasonable terms" are a legal codephrase for "screw everyone who doesn't have at least one patent of their own in the pool"; which is why H.264 has over a thousand of them baked into it. :rolleyes:
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