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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by kuschku on Thursday June 18, 2015 @03:47PM (#9741176)
Sadly, with the rise of VP8/VP9/webm, this got lost.
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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by JoshTriplett on Thursday June 18, 2015 @03:58PM (#9741239)
Those have been implemented in hardware too.
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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by kuschku on Thursday June 18, 2015 @06:23PM (#9741975)
h264 exists in hardware everywhere now. VP8/VP9, not really.

And VP8/VP9 has again the same patent issues as h264.

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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by TD-Linux on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:09PM (#9742135)
The vast majority of phones shipping today include VP8 in hardware. VP9 is a bit rarer at the moment.

While it's up to you and your lawyer to decide whether you can ship a codec, many companies feel perfectly comfortable shipping VP8 and VP9, including Mozilla, Google, Samsung, most SoC vendors, etc.

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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by nitrogen on Thursday June 18, 2015 @10:59PM (#9742784)
And VP8/VP9 has again the same patent issues as h264.

No, not the same patent issues. Google obtained a blanket global license for VP8 and VP9 from MPEGLA.

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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by kuschku on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:43AM (#9752588)
Wrong. Using VP8/VP9 means you have to accept the Google license, which says it is void as soon as you claim software patents are invalid or sue in court against any of Google’s claims.
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