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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264
From:       Greg Grossmeier <greg () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2013-10-31 14:57:59
Message-ID: 20131031145759.GA5109 () x200s
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<quote name="Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" date="2013-10-31" time="10:04:56 -0400">
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf@free.fr> wrote:
> > Le 31/10/13 10:10, Magnus Manske a écrit :
> > > http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/?t=t
> > >  
> > > So, should we support this format now? (not advocating, just curious)
> > 
> > Can we get a summary?
> 
> Summarizing http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html: It seems that
> there's a yearly cap on the licensing fees for H.264. So Cisco is
> paying the cap, and then anyone can download binaries implementing the
> codec from them for free. 

Also good reading on the topic, from one of the main authors of Opus
(the best audio codec available, and it happens to be big F Free) and
long time Wikipedian Greg Maxwell:

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/571978/3226db9ce394bf07/

(LWN Subscriber link, join if you like good reporting in this area)

"Codec licensing amounts to a billion-dollar tax on communication
software. In addition, it is used as a weapon between battling
competitors, so it even affects people in countries without software
patents." quoth Greg.


Other Greg.

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