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on that note, does anyone know what patents for h.264 are still valid, and for how much longer? I've been looking for that info for quite a while now, without s
by esbwhat 14y ago
on that note, does anyone know what patents for h.264 are still valid, and for how much longer? I've been looking for that info for quite a while now, without success.
- shmerl 14y agoYou can take a look at http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.asp... It mentions which ones are expired, but it doesn't say how much longer the remaining ones will be valid.
- _delirium 14y agoSomeone ran a script to extract the patent numbers from that list and put together a table of application/grant/expiration dates: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#H.264_patents http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#H.264_pat... Looks like the last one expires in 2027.
- esbwhat 14y agoSo 15 more years, basically. Man, that's depressing. What's fast becoming the standard for HTML5 video has 15 more years of not being truly free. I wonder what mozilla will do about that.
- shmerl 14y agoThe problem is, with these perpetual upgrades (which undoubtedly will be patented from the the present time) they want to stretch it well beyond 15 years. Luckily H.264 is not a standard in any way, since W3C removed any specific codecs from the video/audio tag spec.