Life inside MPEG

Re:Life inside MPEG by userbinator on Monday November 19, 2018 @11:19PM (#18491765)

The MPEG-2 patents expired earlier this year; are H.264 patents expiring very soon, or do they just want to bring in more royalties by putting out H.265 and already working on what comes after it?

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Re:Life inside MPEG by freeone3000 on Monday November 19, 2018 @11:34PM (#18491807)

Of course they want this. This is how they make money - by developing novel video specifications, usually highly competent ones (H.264 was so much better than WMV9 it was silly, and Thora came much later). H.265 isn't quite as good as VP10 in picture quality, so they're developing a new format to fight for marketshare.

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Re:Life inside MPEG by ksec on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:36AM (#18493660)

Ends in 2027 / 2028. So quite a long time to go still.

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