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		userbinator on June 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: H.264 Is Magic (2016) 8 years after that article was written, many of the patents on H.264 are actually approaching expiry soon (i.e. within a year or two): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M... This is not surprising, given that the first version of the H.264 standard was published in 2003 and patents are usually valid for 20 years. Its predecessors, H.263 and MPEG-4 ASP, have already patent-expired and are in public domain.

amelius on June 15, 2024 [–]

I bet that the successor algorithms will be implemented everywhere in hardware, and we're stuck with the patent problem once again.

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