Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec
by sliverstorm on Thursday December 12, 2013 @07:53PM
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I'm still confused why Cisco is even allowed to do this. Do they pay a flat license fee to MPEG-LA for unlimited usage? I would think they would pay per-seat like most video codecs.
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Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec
by garblegarble on Thursday December 12, 2013 @10:10PM
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It is, but there's a cap of $6.5M/year (and they'd get some of that back as payment for their patents in the pool)