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The people taking videos of their kids won't be doing H.264. Their videocams and/or their Youtubes will be doing the encoding, and their browsers will be doing
by jarek 16y ago
The people taking videos of their kids won't be doing H.264. Their videocams and/or their Youtubes will be doing the encoding, and their browsers will be doing the decoding. In both cases, larger organizations which are easier to bill.
- bzbarsky 16y agoYour videocamera's license for H.264, if you actually read it, is likely quite restrictive. If you use it to film a video, post the video on youtube, and get any revenue from the ads on the resulting youtube page, you're in violation of the license terms, for example, for every single video camera I've seen.
- kenjackson 16y agoCan you point to some links? I can't find anything that mentions this in my camera's documentation.
- bzbarsky 16y agoHmm. I wonder why I can't reply to your comment... As for links (the first one about cameras, the second one following up on it and about more camera models, the last about video editing software): http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Vid... http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/the-mpeg-and-h-264-problem.html http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/the-mpeg-and-h-264-proble... http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/ http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-w...