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Who cares that Apple and Sony are H.265 only? You are free to pay extra license fees for H.265 anyway. Your competition will not.

• threeseed 9y ago
  What ? Users aren't paying licensing fees for H.265. And the competition are all part of H.265 as well e.g. Microsoft, Intel.
  • vetinari 9y ago
    There are TWO patent pools for HEVC, MPEG LA and HEVC Advance, plus patent holders that are part of neither and you have to negotiate on your own. Even if you are patent holder, you still have to pay and then you will receive back your share. It doesn't mean it is free for you. On the content producer side, while MPEG LA waives fees there, HEVC Advance does not. If you are not fta broadcast/cable/sat tv provider or free-to-user streaming provider, you are going to cash up per title or subscriber/month. So in competition, I meant yours. If you are providing a non-free video content, and you insist on HEVC, it is going to cost you. Your competition with VP9 or AV1 won't have this cost. I can pretty much imagine, that those using devices without VP9/AV1 support will be relegated either to software decoding, or will have to pay premium for their hw accelerated stream.
    • Ace17 9y ago
      > There are TWO patent pools for HEVC, MPEG LA and HEVC Advance, Don't forget Velos Media (the third one!).