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There's almost very little point to opening up the VP8 standards process. It seems pretty much designed to challenge H.264 but avoid its patents (how well? TBD)
by mikeryan 16y ago
There's almost very little point to opening up the VP8 standards process. It seems pretty much designed to challenge H.264 but avoid its patents (how well? TBD). Its severely bound in what it can be by trying to avoid H.264's existing patents.
- pyre 16y ago> Its severely bound in what it can be by trying to avoid > H.264's existing patents. Doesn't that describe anything that isn't h.264? Might as well say that h.264 got there and patented everything good, so they must have won. We should just pack up and go home, they get to have a monopoly on video codecs for the next 14+ years.
- mikeryan 16y agoDoesn't that describe anything that isn't h.264 Yeah probably - ask the Theora guys how hard its been ;-) The upside is that it could very much, out of necessity, drive some considerable advancement in video compression algorithms.
- sitmack 16y agoh.264 doesn't have a patent cliff. The move from mpeg1->2->4 has been one of gradual refinement. Like the move from 1 pixel to .5 pixel motion estimation. We should be using a layered codec so those ridiculous patents can be folded in as they expire.
- gorog 16y agoWe already have wavelet codecs like Dirac, which are quite exotic compared to MPEG4 / VP8 / Theora.