commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1746arrow-down111
arrow-up1735arrow-down1external-linkFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comcommander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square159fedilink
minus-squareSirEDCaLot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoThis is why software patents were a horrible idea. We were all warned. Still, I thought the whole objective of AV1 was to avoid any incumbrances.
This is why software patents were a horrible idea. We were all warned.
Still, I thought the whole objective of AV1 was to avoid any incumbrances.