commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1635arrow-down19
arrow-up1626arrow-down1external-linkFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comcommander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square124fedilink
minus-squareSirEDCaLot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42arrow-down1·1 day agoThing that bothers me is these guys are claiming to have patents over AV1. The whole point of av1 is it supposed to be free of this bullshit.
minus-squarechisel@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·21 hours agoAye, but AV1 uses math to make the videos smaller, which is the same technology h.264 uses, so clearly it’s patent infringement!
minus-squareSirEDCaLot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoThis is why software patents were a horrible idea. We were all warned. Still, I thought the whole objective of AV1 was to avoid any incumbrances.
Thing that bothers me is these guys are claiming to have patents over AV1.
The whole point of av1 is it supposed to be free of this bullshit.
Aye, but AV1 uses math to make the videos smaller, which is the same technology h.264 uses, so clearly it’s patent infringement!
This is why software patents were a horrible idea. We were all warned.
Still, I thought the whole objective of AV1 was to avoid any incumbrances.