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Firm 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 increa (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Does this have any impact towards the consumer?

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[-] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Honestly probably a good thing long-term, lots of platforms have been dragging their heels in adopting better newer codecs, so maybe this will finally give the justification required to put in the engineering hours.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

is this why youtube is lagging and buffering?

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[-] Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 9 points 5 months ago

Long Live WebM I guess.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

webm can contain VP8, VP9 or AV1 video streams. I guess if you mean webm with VP9 inside it could be one solution, though less efficient. Also Google donated VP9 and what they had for VP10 to the development efforts of of AV1, so if AV1 is found to be infringing it's a negative signal for VP9 too...

Edit: Sorry I was a bit off-topic. I was thinking of the action that Dolby is currently taking against Snapchat for their AV1 use.

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[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago

Oh look just as the AV1 consortium is also deciding to do shakedowns. It's a good thing the open source community have a history of building functional and well performing codecs, especially when it comes to media formats.

[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh man. I hope Dolby looses. Patents are way too long and benefit so few that I think they shouldn't be justified/exist in society. Also some stuff should be decided in court to be essential technology and patents/claims should then be dissolved/voided.

[-] NeilBru@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

loses

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