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by jbk 11 days ago
Read the list of patents left: a lot of them are on SVC (no one uses this) and on higher profile.

For a lot of use cases, including Basic and Main profile, H.264 is already free.
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kasabali 11 days ago
Main profile is very mediocre. Any file I see in the wild is encoded in high profile.
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