MPEG-LA Patents, over 5,500 of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Patent_holders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Pat

MPEG-LA Patents, over 5,500 of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Patent_holders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Patent_h... https://www.mpegla.com/programs/avc-h-264/ https://www.mpegla.com/programs/avc-h-264/ To get h.264 into Firefox, Cisco stepped up and offered to take the heat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/royalty-free-web-video-codecs/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/royalty-free-web-video-c... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706252 (recent HN repost) but that doesn't mean they can safely be in Chromium. See also: The entire reason VLC can do MPEG-2 decoding being a French student research project.