Los Angeles
– The widely-used H.264 video codec will remain free to utilize by Web
publishers through at least 2015, following a five-year extension of the
freebie by the licensing group MPEG LA, CNET News.com reported. The current
policy dictated that websites like YouTube could offer video encoded using the
format without having to pay the patent holders license fees, so long as the
video itself was free to viewers.
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It’s just a short term thing, they will sure charge more after 5 years when a lot of websites will use H.264.
Catalin
Professional Streaming Consultant