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minus-squareVenia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 day agoWe all knew this was going to happen one day or another. Where’s Theora these days, byw? Wasn’t it the encoding blessed by the license druids?
minus-squareFG_3479@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 day agoTheora is an old and very inefficient codec. VP8, VP9, and now AV1 have succeeded it.
minus-squareVenia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoBut all of those are VPs are patent encumbered, right?
minus-squareFG_3479@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·24 hours agoThey are not supposed to be but Sisvel claims they are.
minus-squareflying_sheep@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoBecause they always do, not because they have a legitimate claim.
minus-squareVenia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoIn the US system at least it matters not if your claim is legitimate, the mere fact that you can file it poses a severe risk. Patent system needs fixing from the foundations up. Or even better, full abolition. In the meantime, what’s the better actually open codec to reencode to?
We all knew this was going to happen one day or another.
Where’s Theora these days, byw? Wasn’t it the encoding blessed by the license druids?
Theora is an old and very inefficient codec. VP8, VP9, and now AV1 have succeeded it.
But all of those are VPs are patent encumbered, right?
They are not supposed to be but Sisvel claims they are.
Because they always do, not because they have a legitimate claim.
In the US system at least it matters not if your claim is legitimate, the mere fact that you can file it poses a severe risk.
Patent system needs fixing from the foundations up. Or even better, full abolition.
In the meantime, what’s the better actually open codec to reencode to?