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More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Jan 17, 2011 9:24 UTC (Mon) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141)
In reply to: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog) by hitmark
Parent article: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

> Also, Apple is a member of the MPEG-LA group

More precisely, they are a licensor in the AVC/H.264 patent pool, see

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx

> (i think they provided some container format patents).

Incorrect, see

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList....

Contrary to a statement that often gets repeated around here there are no meaningful patents on container formats.


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