H.264 Will Be Royalty Free For Internet Video Forever, Mozilla Still Doesn't Care
8/28/2010 01:22:00 PM
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MPEG LA, the group that licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. But Mozilla thinks that the better part of forever could belong to Google's WebM format.The announcement serves as MPEG LA's not-so-indirect response to Google's announcement of their own WebM format in May. You'd think that this news might persuade Mozilla to just go ahead and jump on board the good ship h.264—one of their chief objections was that we'd wake up one day and the propriety standard wouldn't be free anymore—but according to Mozilla's Vice President of Engineering, Mike Shaver, this doesn't change diddly:
The MPEG-LA announcement doesn't change anything for the next four years, since this promise was already made through 2014...Given that IEC [International Electrotechnical Commission] has already started accepting submissions for patents in the replacement H.265 standard, and the rise of unencumbered formats like WebM, it is not clear if H.264 will still be relevant in 2014.
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