H.264 standard gains free license for Internet video use
Written by Gary McArthur Saturday, 28 August 2010 06:24
AppleInsider reports that the MPEG Licensing Authority has announced that it will indefinitely extend royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users, erasing a key advantage of Google's WebM rival and cementing Apple's preferred H.264 as the video format for modern HTML5 video on the web.
The MPEG LA manages licensing of the patent pool for H.264 video compression for a variety of companies that have jointly contributed the intellectual property behind the standard, a group which includes Apple.The background to this decision and the points of view of the rival formats are described by AppleInsider.
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