- From: Spartanicus <mk98762@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:52:30 +0100
Maik Merten <maikmerten at gmx.net> wrote: >Well, too bad there's no royality-free, termless licensing for a >baseline of H.264. The current terms ( >http://www.mpegla.com/avc/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf ) absolutely question the >suitability of H.264 for free browsers (beer and speech). The licensing >costs can pile up to considerable amounts (hundred of thousands of >dollars) if you ship as many browser packages as e.g. Mozilla does. >That's most likely an unacceptable money bleed for a zero-revenue >product. Even if it wasn't, using a commercial codec as the baseline codec may require people who wish to author content using that format to pay for the privilege. This is currently the case for mp3 [1]. Although afaik this isn't currently the case for non commercial usage, the rights holders can change that at any given moment. [1] http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/index.html#4 -- Spartanicus
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