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It's open source. Good luck enforcing patent claims against something that can be copied endlessly for free. Ask how that turned out against ffmpeg.
by freeone3000 7y ago
It's open source. Good luck enforcing patent claims against something that can be copied endlessly for free. Ask how that turned out against ffmpeg.
- theamk 7y agoEh, if they pull all apps which use that library from apple's and google's app stores, that would be enough to make it useless.
- coolspot 7y agoCodec IP owners usually grant royalty-free rights to software video players. They make money licensing IP to hardware manufacturers.
- freeone3000 7y agoMPEG-LA does not. https://www.mpegla.com/programs/avc-h-264/ https://www.mpegla.com/programs/avc-h-264/ is their license scheme - while they allow a certain threshold below which cutoff isn't required, there's a lot of companies (such as Blizzard Entertainment!) whose primary distributed product is solely for video playback. H.264 requires a license for personal, at-home playback of encoded files. You have such a license if you have a Windows OS, an Apple OS, if you're using Chrome, or if you use a set-top box, or other "single-use" device which can play back H.264. You do not have such a license on linux with mplayer.