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by astrange 3941 days ago
The way that article is written makes it sound like a closed-source codec, but it is actually open:

https://github.com/cisco/openh264

and the code is better than I expected from a commercial project, it even uses may_alias properly. I wonder why the decoder doesn't support CPU multithreading, though? Slice threads are pretty simple to add.

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It's about the patents.

"while OpenH264 is not truly open, at least it is the most open widely used video codec"

http://andreasgal.com/2014/10/14/openh264-now-in-firefox/