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The license terms for H.264 appear to require both encoder and decoder vendors to pay royalties once they ship over 100K units:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/avcweb.pdf

H.264 is similar for the MPEG pool:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Documents/HEVCweb.p...