Re:How does a video codec work?
by ksec on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:57AM
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Both H.264 and H.265 are Open Standards, even more so than Open Media Alliance. They are just not Royalty Free.
And AFAICT, All Smartphone shipped in the past 3 - 4 years has had Hardware H.264 encoder and decoder enabled. That is roughly 4.5 Billion of Smartphone and virtually all Smartphone users has H.264 decoder.
H.264 Video distribution over the Web is also Royalty Free in perpetuity.
H.265 is a bag of hurt, hopefully H.266, the MC-IF [1] will sort this out before release. The only major company missing from that list is Qualcomm.
I dont mind Royalty, there are huge amount and Research and Investment going each next gen codec. The problem is when they start being greedy. If they just collect $0.2 per hardware encoder & decoder shipped, that is a $400M annual revenue stream form the codec, or $4B to $8 Billion over its Codec lifetime split across different companies.
And AFAICT, All Smartphone shipped in the past 3 - 4 years has had Hardware H.264 encoder and decoder enabled. That is roughly 4.5 Billion of Smartphone and virtually all Smartphone users has H.264 decoder.
H.264 Video distribution over the Web is also Royalty Free in perpetuity.
H.265 is a bag of hurt, hopefully H.266, the MC-IF [1] will sort this out before release. The only major company missing from that list is Qualcomm.
I dont mind Royalty, there are huge amount and Research and Investment going each next gen codec. The problem is when they start being greedy. If they just collect $0.2 per hardware encoder & decoder shipped, that is a $400M annual revenue stream form the codec, or $4B to $8 Billion over its Codec lifetime split across different companies.
[1] https://www.mc-if.org