Legally VP8 is beginning to look like the go-to format for video..
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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Does this have any impact towards the consumer?
Disconnect your TV from the internet and don’t let it update (downgrade) your software.
Probably price increases to offset corporate losses.
Price increases on streaming services you mean?
If so, a magical alternative exists on the high seas, or so I've heard
Oh look just as the AV1 consortium is also deciding to do shakedowns. It's a good thing the open source community have a history of building functional and well performing codecs, especially when it comes to media formats.
Maybe in misunderstanding, but that story seems to be about Dolby going after AV1, not the other way around.
Lemmy really has a piss poor reading comprehension.
You mean the world
Oh man. I hope Dolby looses. Patents are way too long and benefit so few that I think they shouldn't be justified/exist in society. Also some stuff should be decided in court to be essential technology and patents/claims should then be dissolved/voided.
I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a "if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can't use this codec" type of coercion..
( I may have got the logic wrong, but there's some kind of license that works that way, which other open codecs have used, apparently )
Just ignoring that predators exist .. provides NO protection from them.
You have to make your license-agreement break abusers, .. or you're just helping them.
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loses
Man I can't wait to upgrade my device/GPU with AV1 hardware support
AI slop bubble fart reverb sfx
AMD's XT 7000 series is available for cheap as already a few gens old, or Intel ARC
If I come up with a concept in philosophy can I patent it and charge money when people use it in their philosophy? Fees for codecs operate on this plane of backwardness. Patents in and of themselves are stupid enough, but the capacity for stupidity within patenting knows no bounds apparently.
I'm gonna go patent Marxism lol. Maybe I'll patent irony at the same time.
Wait, is Stallman right again?
AGAIN?
I have met Stallman, I don't like Stallman, Stallman is right about most thing related software licensing.
Stallman only eats open sores.
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The patents have expired everywhere except USA, Brazil and Malaysia.
This is a blatant money grab before they expire everywhere.
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open formats is the way to go. Patents seems more and more like a scam
Figures. Patents are the backbone of capitalism. Some say it invented capitalism as we know it.
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tiny bit clickbait, small companies are still at $100,000 unchanged
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not that that should exist, either
What could possibly be worth my predicted lifetime worth of earnings?!?
Here's why it doesn't matter:
"AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia),[3] a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors."
Here's why it does matter
Most server hardware thats out there right now doesn't support av1 encoding, so all of those, literally tens of thousands of them in thousands of spread out data centers have to be replaced with brand new +$1,500 a pop cards that do support it before they can use it
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The best part of the article is the very end, even if the site makes it look unrelated.
Avanci's Video pool and Access Advance's Video Distribution Patent pool are both now seeking content royalties from streaming services for the use of HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1. Access Advance's rates are capped at roughly $63 million per year, and Avanci has published rates of 1.6% to 2.0% of revenue or $0.12 to $0.15 per user per month.
$4.5 million max for H.264 is rookie numbers vs. the $63 million max for AV1
How does someone seek royalties on an open, royalty-free video coding format?
By claiming that you own patents on technology used by said format.
The "open royalty free" aspect applies to companies that are a part of the AOMedia group, if you're not involved with them you're not covered by the patent grants and restrictions in place, and can charge whatever the courts say is cool.
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quietly
Stop putting "quietly" in your fucking headlines, you hacks. This wasn't "quiet", it was very publicly announced.
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