H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means

18 pointsposted 37 minutes ago
by phantomathkg

5 Comments

breve

28 minutes ago

There's no point supporting these parasitic business models. Use royalty-free video and audio formats.

AV1 for video: https://aomedia.org/specifications/av1/

And Opus for audio: https://opus-codec.org/

cwillu

13 minutes ago

“Access Advance and Avanci have published rates for a pool asserting content royalties across AVC, HEVC, VP9, VVC, and AV1 that could push major platforms toward nine-figure annual exposure.”

breve

10 minutes ago

Yes, they've made claims on AV1, claims that have never been tested in court.

You need to understand that these are parasitic businesses. They didn't contribute to AV1. They didn't develop AV1. But they will make any claim they think they can get away with.

Show me the court case they've won that validates their claims on AV1.

jmclnx

10 minutes ago

I was going to suggest you missed vorbis ogg. So I went looking for a link, I found out this:

> Since 2013, the Xiph.Org Foundation has stated that the use of Vorbis should be deprecated in favor of the Opus codec

I never heard of Opus, so some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)

From what I can find, seems opus only supports audio. ogg also has a video format (ogv), odd it is suggested ogg was superseded by opus. Maybe I am missing something ?