Last attempt to squeeze some money before these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.
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Last attempt to ~~squeeze some money before~~ get these formats ~~are~~ abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.
FTFY
Thing that bothers me is these guys are claiming to have patents over AV1.
The whole point of av1 is it supposed to be free of this bullshit.
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I’m pretty sure most of the H.264 patents expired or are set to expire next year. Maybe it’s one last cash grab before the best codec ever made is liberated
Honestly probably a good thing long-term, lots of platforms have been dragging their heels in adopting better newer codecs, so maybe this will finally give the justification required to put in the engineering hours.
fuck the authority, chaining down anything digital because the law is far behind the relative breakneck speed of technological progress.