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Theora is based on VP3 (with few and documented modifications) just like VP6 which has been in used on youtube for years. So if theora is infringing any patents
by freetard 17y ago
Theora is based on VP3 (with few and documented modifications) just like VP6 which has been in used on youtube for years. So if theora is infringing any patents, so is VP3 and therefor VP6. In other words, if I had any patents on VP6/VP3/theora I would be suing the hell out of youtube and everybody else. Why would I wait for theora to be mainstream? Doesn't make sense.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoYoutube never used VP6. They became a internet giant using an even older and crappier proprietary codec and even today H.264 fans will tell you that their encoding using that codec are crappy. I think there's a lesson there, but I'm not sure what it is. VP6 is supported by Adobe Flash, so they and various others could have been sued though, so your basic point stands.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoChecking this out on Wikipedia, I was surprised by how many sites I'd heard of weren't using H.264, but VP6 instead, I'm guessing for royalty reasons that don't apply to the big pockets of Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services#Streaming_Video_Technical_Information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services#St...
- acdha 17y agoYouTube was't an attractive target before Google bought them (no money). Now they are but they're using H.264 and presumably a full licensed toolchain for it, defended by a lot of industry players in addition to Google's deep pockets. I hope that the VP3 heritage is truly patent free but right now it's hard to say anything is patent-safe given the wretched state of our industry. Theora, in contrast, is not defended by anyone powerful and thus far hasn't been worth going after; if it starts to get accepted I'd be surprised if one of the trolls didn't try for danegeld.