[taligent]

Exactly the patent threat will come from the MPEG-LA or the members directly.

Because if VP9 is indeed similar to H.265 then you I would imagine a patent is being infringed somewhere. And since Google doesn't provide patent indemnification you can guarantee that some big royalties will be demanded from users.

[shmerl]

> Exactly the patent threat will come from the MPEG-LA or the members directly. Because if VP9 is indeed similar to H.265

Why would they design the codec to be vulnerable to patent attacks? VP8 was designed to work around threats from H.264. They surely applied the same logic for VP9 since they intend it for practical use and not as theoretical brain exercise. MPEG-LA spits threats all the time, including against Theora and VP8, but they have no teeth to bite.

[gillianseed]

I bet you said the same thing back when VP8 was released, no such patent lawsuit has occured.

Also, On2 which Google purchased holds lots of video compression patents, patents which codec's like h.264 and h.265 just as likely violates.

MPEG-LA does not offer any patent indemnification either.