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Dylan16807 55 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a ...

> The videos we watch on modern systems using H.264/AVC tech are running off MPEG-4 Part 10, and that is still very much covered by patents.

I dispute "very much". It came out in 2004 and almost all the patents are gone.

ksec 54 days ago [–]

Indeed. And it is Siemens again [1], only 5 left, and Siemens' one being 2030.

I am also interested if EVC Baseline profile will become patent free soon. Given it is built on top of AVC.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...

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