God blinds those He wants to lose.
God blinds those He wants to lose.
Posted Jan 31, 2018 0:35 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)In reply to: God blinds those He wants to lose. by moltonel
Parent article: Chiariglione: A crisis, the causes and a solution
> How does he think that AOM managed to develop its AV1 format, which is alledegdly better than MPEG's best ? How did this happen without an incentive ?
To set the record straight, pretty much the only incentive large enough to get so many companies together and form AOM was that MPEG LA was steeply increasing its HEVC licensing fees. See https://youtu.be/lzPaldsmJbk?t=17s
There were some open codecs showing promise before that, but with the fragmentation and without so many companies backing them, it's very well possible that they wouldn't have achieved significant success in the end.