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Well, what's the licensing cost for MPEG4? It's probably per user/minute streamed, rather than a one time cost per minute of video encoded.
by easp 17y ago
Well, what's the licensing cost for MPEG4? It's probably per user/minute streamed, rather than a one time cost per minute of video encoded.
- kierank 17y agoNo charges for free web streams until 2015.
- nailer 17y agoThat's terrible. Imaging 'charges for images on free web streams free for the next four years'. How did that ever become acceptable?
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoYou pay per encoder and per decoder, both of which would adversely affect Google with their encoding farms and popular browser if the charge wasn't capped at around $5 million (I think it's gone up to just under 6 million this year) to stop the big players doing something silly like getting together and developing their own royalty-free codec. Unfortunately for that cunning plan, Google clearly sees more benefit from a codec that's compatible with the open web and open source than they do from licence discounts.