AV1. Netvc didn’t happen, and parts of Daala and Thor were integrated into AV1. Google has the only relevant patents and gave the world an irrevocable license to use it freely.
This is as close as you can get. The sisvel patent trolls will put their grubby fingers onto everything you can call “video codec”, and make up ways they can milk people stupid enough to pay them.
Theora is an old and very inefficient codec. VP8, VP9, and now AV1 have succeeded it.
But all of those are VPs are patent encumbered, right?
They are not supposed to be but Sisvel claims they are.
Because they always do, not because they have a legitimate claim.
In the US system at least it matters not if your claim is legitimate, the mere fact that you can file it poses a severe risk.
Patent system needs fixing from the foundations up. Or even better, full abolition.
In the meantime, what’s the better actually open codec to reencode to?
AV1. Netvc didn’t happen, and parts of Daala and Thor were integrated into AV1. Google has the only relevant patents and gave the world an irrevocable license to use it freely.
This is as close as you can get. The sisvel patent trolls will put their grubby fingers onto everything you can call “video codec”, and make up ways they can milk people stupid enough to pay them.