[dpe82]

The key here is Cisco is paying the patent royalties for anyone who uses their codec binaries - which will cost them $6.5m/year. They could do the same for x264, but it's probably legally safer to distribute an implementation they wrote themselves.

[cfluffy]

If the x264 people think they can give x264 to Cisco under a license that we can compile it and distribute the binaries with no changes to our MPEG LA licensing agreements, tell them to get talk of me ([e-mail]) if they want to do this. I came to the conclusion Cisco could not do this without x264 giving us an appropriate license.

[who8mylunch]

Thanks for the classification. I was not aware of those costs.