MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec

Posted Feb 12, 2011 11:32 UTC (Sat) by renox (guest, #23785)
In reply to: MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec by xav
Parent article: MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec

> PNG has been a HUGE succes: nowadays nobody fears GIF lawsuits anymore.

Uh? I remember someone trying to count the number of GIF&PNG images present on the web:
the number of GIF was higher than the number of PNG, so no PNG hasn't been a huge success.

The reason why nobody fear lawsuits about GIF is that the patent expired..

> If someone wanted to sue you about it, just switch to PNG and you're done. VP8 needs only to reach the same state: make it useless to sue about video codecs because switching is costless.

I understand what you're saying but it's wrong: remember that for a long time IE didn't decode correctly PNG..
There's the same issue for VP8, the switch is costless only if your users can read VP8..