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I was about the write similar comment.

People keep mixing up H.264 and MPEG-4 being the same thing ( As they did in another HN thread ). Divx in 2001 was using MPEG-4 Part 2 or better known as H.263. Divx also has its H.264 profile that came much later.

Anyway I am very pissed that Nokia could be allowed to do that to AVC.

And then there is next bit;

>The patent trolls were the people claiming that MP3 was “dead” in 2017 — when in fact it was finally freed, because the last patents on it had expired. MP3 is sorta mediocre, but it’s also a common baseline everyone knows how to handle. And, y’know, it’ll do.

The common baseline should be AAC-LC. It is also patent free as MP3, still being used in iTunes. You get much better quality while having practically same hardware and software support.

[davidgerard]

perhaps it should be AAC-LC, but it is MP3.