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by nikanj 12 days ago
It's so weird to look at the patents list for H.264 and see multiple patents granted after the H.264 specification was released. Was the situation similar for MPEG-4?
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wmf 12 days ago
The patent pool system is really bad. There's no incentive to weed out bad patents.
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userbinator 12 days ago
Those patents may not necessarily be required to encode or decode, if they're just a new way to implement some part of the specification.
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