That's a great list of the H.264 patent claims--thanks. I had naively assumed that since the first iteration of standard was published in 2003 that "obviously" all related patents (to features in the first iteration, anyway) would have to have been filed prior. Clearly, that is not the case.
"method of selecting a reference picture" sounds like an encoding patent, and that one was filed four years after the standard came out. I wouldn't worry about 2028.
It's harder to evaluate the blob of patents from 2004-2005.