Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec

Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by dpe82 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @08:08PM (#6898463)

The key here is Cisco is paying the patent royalties for anyone who uses their codec binaries - which will cost them $6.5m/year. They could do the same for x264, but it's probably legally safer to distribute an implementation they wrote themselves.

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Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by cfluffy on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:45PM (#6902810)

If the x264 people think they can give x264 to Cisco under a license that we can compile it and distribute the binaries with no changes to our MPEG LA licensing agreements, tell them to get talk of me ([email protected]) if they want to do this. I came to the conclusion Cisco could not do this without x264 giving us an appropriate license.

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Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by who8mylunch on Thursday December 12, 2013 @11:26PM (#6899070)

Thanks for the classification. I was not aware of those costs.

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