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Originally Posted by BadFrame
they won't give up their patent cash cow business model of : 'pick a bunch of patents from the pool, implement a slight improvement on the current video codec standard, charge royalties, rinse and repeat' : without a fight
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It is fine to be a fan of royalty free codecs, but I think you give the MPEG technology a little bit too small credit.
HEVC isn't just a small slight improvement. And are we forgetting already that VP9 is basically just a copy of HEVC with some nerfs (worse reference structure, weird hacky b-frames, lack of weighted prediction or SAO, IIRC)? On2 still did it the usual way: take ideas from the MPEG standard, and obfuscate them a bit to not be directly exposed to patent lawyers.
And currently, VP9 is the format that AV1 is being built on! So I'd say we should get a bit more mature on the freetard/fanboy feelings toward MPEG. Not to mention when the best video coding technology to this day (x264) was based on their codec.
Also, MPEG-LA royalties are sane and okay. It is the greedy companies that split off from MPEG-LA pool that went overboard and caused a SNAFU.