1. Cisco's announces high quality, open source H.264 implementation
- Posted by EUWX Oct 31, 2013
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https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/ciscos-h-264-good-news/
Quoting from the above site:
"As I noted last year, one of the biggest challenges to open source software has been the patent status of video codecs. The most popular codec, H.264, is patent-encumbered and licensed by MPEG LA, under terms that prevent distributing it with open source products including Firefox. Cisco has announced today that they are going to release a gratis, high quality, open source H.264 implementation — along with gratis binary modules compiled from that source and hosted by Cisco for download. This move enables any open source project to incorporate Cisco’s H.264 module without paying MPEG LA license fees.............More"
