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New MPEG-4 Licensing Scheme

Posted by michael on from the pay-per-view dept.

morcheeba writes: "EETimes is reporting that the licensing of MPEG-4 patents will be substantially different than the existing MPEG-2 licenses. The per-player fee will be substantially cheaper ($0.25 instead of $2.50), but a new "use fee" component of $0.02/hour will be charged to service providers. More on MPEG-4 in general at MacWeek; The MPEG-4 Industry Forum and MPEG LA are handling the licenses."

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  1. It's time to GPL Fractal Compression by EastCoastLA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know of two groups using GA to produce amazing Fractal compression. Anyone know how we can get this GPL'd.