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Motivation: Push H.264 on the web, give MS (and Apple) more money from license fees in the future.
by buster 16y ago
Motivation: Push H.264 on the web, give MS (and Apple) more money from license fees in the future.
- archangel_one 16y agoI doubt it. I think their motivation is to prevent WebM from replacing h.264 as the dominant web video format. Microsoft don't care about licensing fees - their cash cows will be earning them orders of magnitude more. But if WebM replaces h.264 then Firefox on Linux (or ChromeOS or whatever) will be able to play that quite happily, whereas I'm sure MS would prefer h.264 to remain dominant since it's patent-encumbered.
- buster 16y agoPreventing WebM to become dominant has the exact same outcome of more license income ;) Also, why shouldn't they care about license fees? Think about all encoders/decoders, all producers, all receivers, home cinema players. With more and more videos (VOD) moving into the web, this is only at the beginning. Once H.264 is established enough it's income for free!