videoborat

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by videoborat 9mo ago
Finally, AV1 and HEVC are covered by the same number of patent pools.
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by videoborat 2y ago
Dream on, some of the original patents expire only by 2030 due to perfectly legal term extensions. AVC won’t be free for quite some time. Better embrace the newer codecs even if they have a price tag.
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Second AV1 patent pool open for business(avanci.com)
2 points by videoborat 3y ago|1 comments
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by videoborat 3y ago
Together with the sisvel pool, this sums up to roughly 50 companies that are very contend about your AV1 usage.
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by videoborat 3y ago
Lenovo thought so too and now faces a lawsuit over its AV1 use
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by videoborat 4y ago
Agree that's odd. I initially thought they'd delayed AV1 integration to match the VVC timeline but it seems the QC engineers are just generally slower than the ones working at Mediatek...
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by videoborat 4y ago
Just one more AOM outsider (and major player in the video codec space) publicly stating that their patents in fact do read onto AV1. I wonder what patents AOM tried to sidestep in AV1 design if not the ones from Qualcomm, Dolby, Ericsson, I
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Qualcomm statement regarding AOM licensing shenanigans wrt AV1 [pdf](qualcomm.com)
13 points by videoborat 4y ago|10 comments
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by videoborat 4y ago
Despite integrating AV1 into their newest upcoming chipset, Qualcomm seems to be not all too interested in the associated licensing obligations.
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by videoborat 5y ago
Awesome!
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by videoborat 5y ago
Also featured here: https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues The article raises an interesting point. Ultimately, Googles pushing of 'royalty-free' AV1 for the greater good is just shifting costs to device
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by videoborat 6y ago
I think it's important to understand that google wont even let you use any HEVC decoder thats already installed in your OS to decode video in their walled-garden browser. They just deliberately block this technology.
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by videoborat 6y ago
H.266 VVC includes tools specifically for VR use cases like doing a motion vector wrap around at the boundaries of 360 equirectangular video or better support for independently coded tiles (subpictures in VVC lingo) which are used in viewpo
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ITU-T H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) finished at 13:53 UTC July 3rd
5 points by videoborat 6y ago|0 comments
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by videoborat 6y ago
i'll just leave that here: https://blog.playtherightfuture.com/aoms-av1-patents-arent-f...