Hopefully, this will serve a big cup of STFU to Apple and other supporters of H.264 as the HTML5 component, claiming it's free (which it is, to viewers, but not encoders (eventually)).
I'm afraid you have that backwards. H.264 is free to encoders, it's the decoder that has to be licensed. Thus why it would cost the browser developers (Mozilla, Opera, Google, etc.) and not the sites encoding the video.
I'm afraid you have that backwards. H.264 is free to encoders, it's the decoder that has to be licensed. Thus why it would cost the browser developers (Mozilla, Opera, Google, etc.) and not the sites encoding the video.
Ahh... Right on. Either way. They tout it as royalty free, and continue to re-up the window in which it stays that way. But they're always reserving the right to bring the hammer down whenever they choose, and start requiring payments.
Indeed, and given that both Apple and Microsoft stand to profit from the dropping of said hammer, you know damn well it will fall if H.264 is adopted as the de-facto HTML5 video codec. I do not trust either of those companies.
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H.264 put on notice.
Hopefully, this will serve a big cup of STFU to Apple and other supporters of H.264 as the HTML5 component, claiming it's free (which it is, to viewers, but not encoders (eventually)).
Ahh... Right on. Either way. They tout it as royalty free, and continue to re-up the window in which it stays that way. But they're always reserving the right to bring the hammer down whenever they choose, and start requiring payments.