Royalty-Free MPEG Video Proposals Announced

theweatherelectric writes "Rob Glidden notes on his blog that MPEG has recently 'announced it has received proposals for a royalty-free MPEG standard and has settled on a deliberation process to consider them.' There are two tracks toward royalty-free video currently under consideration by MPEG. The first track is IVC, a new standard 'based on MPEG-1 technology which is believed a safe royalty-free baseline that can be enhanced by additional unencumbered technology described in MPEG-2, JPEG, research publications and innovative technologies which are promised to be subject to royalty-free licenses.' The second proposed track is WebVC, an attempt to get the constrained baseline profile of H.264 licensed under royalty-free terms. Rob Glidden offers an analysis of both proposals. Also of interest is Rob's short history of why royalty-free H.264 failed last time."

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Or you can just...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or you can just tell the MPEG-LA group to screw themselves and use VP8.

This "Intellectual Property" business is a bunch of crap.

Re:Or you can just...

[Vanders]

And use inferior technology that is a patent minefield?

"Inferior" is subjective, and I'd love to see any proof you have that VP8/WebM is a "patent minefield".

At least with H.264 I can be certain that my business isn't going to be taken to court one day and I lose it all. With H.264 I don't need to worry about such

Where did you get such a silly idea from? An H.264 license simply provides you a license to the patented technologies in H.264 that are owned by the MPEG-LA members. There are no guarantees or indemnities against any non-MPEG-LA member from suing you and everyone else for using H.264.

The risk from submarine patents for H.264 is exactly the same as VP8.