H.264, patent licensing, and you (Engadget)

Posted May 6, 2010 11:59 UTC (Thu) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)
In reply to: H.264, patent licensing, and you (Engadget) by AndreE
Parent article: H.264, patent licensing, and you (Engadget)

I've mentioned it a few times on the WHATWG mailing list, but nobody really cares. It'll just follow whatever Google decides to use with VP8.

patience please

Posted May 6, 2010 15:13 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Google can't release a codec under an Innovation-Compatible patent license until the Google lawyers square things with the patent trolls. Ideally they also have to acquire one or more patents that they could use as a deterrent to keep MPEG LA in line.

Then it's just a matter of tuning the YouTube servers to let the content encoded with the new codec buffer a little extra, and the content encoded with h.264 buffer not quite enough. Then everyone will say "h.264 sux, it skips all the time."