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Re:H.264 and VP8 for still image coding: WebP? by patrickaljord on Friday October 01, 2010 @02:55AM (#1746279)
> Google should be talking with Microsoft, Apple, and their hardware partners to look at next-generation technology they can put out, unencumbered by any patents

But Apple and Microsoft are not interested by formats unencumbered by patents. Google, xiph and the fsf have been pushing for such formats for decades and Apple and Microsoft have been doing the contrary, pushing hard for their patents encumbered wm9 and AAC.

Unfortunately, Google is alone on this one and will have to push webm and webp and any other open format on their own.

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Re:H.264 and VP8 for still image coding: WebP? by werftgh on Friday October 01, 2010 @12:20PM (#1747519)
Might not be possible, it's not the format or algorithm thats patented - in many cases it's the concept. A patent on compressing an image by only storing some spatial frequencies gets you however you code the DCT.
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Re:H.264 and VP8 for still image coding: WebP? by astrange on Friday October 01, 2010 @04:08PM (#1748454)
JPEG is an open format already, so that alone as an argument for replacing it doesn't really make sense.

Some features of JPEG haven't been implemented due to patent concerns, but I think those have expired now.

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