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You know I have absolutely no knowledge about how codec licensing works so please feel free to inform me. I am wondering how much Google pays for codec license
by pavs 17y ago
You know I have absolutely no knowledge about how codec licensing works so please feel free to inform me. I am wondering how much Google pays for codec license for Youtube/Google-video.
Is it possible that that Google will benefit from this merger by pushing VP8 (assuming thats their best/latest codec) as a standard and open codec as an alternative to Theora.
Not sure if I am comparing apple to oranges so feel free to correct me.
- DarkShikari 17y agoI am wondering how much Google pays for codec license for Youtube/Google-video. Zero. Internet broadcast is free until at least 2016. They might pay a per-encoder fee on the server-side, but this is likely negligible (20 cents each). Now, the fees they pay for Chrome may be significant, though we don't know if they negotiated a better deal than the publicly available license. If I recall correctly, the license cap is around $4m/year for H.264.
- wmf 17y agoGoogle ought to be paying for H.264 encoder licenses for YouTube, although maybe they don't have to pay anything if they have fewer than 10,000 encoding machines. Certainly it's far less than $100M.
- kierank 17y agoNow, the fees they pay for Chrome may be significant, though we don't know if they negotiated a better deal than the publicly available license. Doesn't the RAND (Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) nature of H.264 licensing make this impossible?