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Yea, Apple seems to be the only major holdout for royalty-free formats in general at this point.
by yuhong 9y ago
Yea, Apple seems to be the only major holdout for royalty-free formats in general at this point.
- threeseed 9y agoAgain we don't know if AV1 is royalty free because it hasn't been tested yet. VP8 infringed on a number of MPEG-LA patents and would've required a license. VP9 could likely be the same. And H.265 has been the industry standard for a number of years now shipping in hardware from Intel, Nvidia, GoPro, Sony etc.
- kibwen 9y agoAccording to http://aomedia.org/about-us/ http://aomedia.org/about-us/ , Intel and Nvidia (and ARM, AMD, Cisco, Broadcom, etc.) are all on board with AV1.
- threeseed 9y agoIntel, Nvidia, ARM etc have been shipping HEVC hardware since 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#2...
- kibwen 9y agoI'm not sure what that statement is intending to conclude. AV1 is intended to compete not with H.265, but with H.265's eventual theoretical successor.
- lern_too_spel 9y ago> Again we don't know if AV1 is royalty free because it hasn't been tested yet. VP8 infringed on a number of MPEG-LA patents and would've required a license. VP9 could likely be the same. On the contrary, we know that nobody has tried to set up a patent pool for VP9 or otherwise ask for royalties. On the other hand, new patent pools for HEVC keep popping up. You could pay one and then be asked to pay another. https://blog.streamingmedia.com/2017/05/velos-media-hevc-patent-pool.html https://blog.streamingmedia.com/2017/05/velos-media-hevc-pat...