I would be surprised if Netflix cannot pay the patent fees. The ffmpeg page mentions that commercial ffmpeg users end up paying the groups like MPEG LA. In gene

I would be surprised if Netflix cannot pay the patent fees. The ffmpeg page mentions that commercial ffmpeg users end up paying the groups like MPEG LA. In general, I'm guessing patent owners don't like saying "no, we don't want to accept your money". https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html