Audio-video patents
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Audio-video is a domain of computer science plagued by thickets of software patents. This results in many groups having to write their own formats and most groups being
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[edit] Difficulty of video innovation
When explaining why Google were not supporting the patent-free Ogg Theora codec, Chris DiBona replied "here's the challenge: Can theora move forward without infringing on the other video compression patents?"[1]
[edit] Mp3 audio
[edit] H.264 and MPEG video formats
- (Main article: MPEG video formats)
[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org
- MPEG video formats - including H.264
- Harm to standards
- Example software patents
- Real Media - audio and video formats with patent problems[2]
- List of recordings and transcripts
- Why consumer organisations should be involved
[edit] External links
- 180 German police perform raid regarding software patents
- Wikipedia: MP3#Licensing and patent issues
- gnu.org: Why audio format matters
- Rob Savoye, at the end of a Gnash talk, mentions a CodecPatents project (the project has a placeholder website)
- Mozilla Foundation comments, January 2010: HTML5 video and codecs, and Video, Freedom And Mozilla
- One of the relevant patents: US5,214,678 (relevant to what??)
[edit] Difficulty of developing players
- Does FFmpeg infringe patents? We don't know
- Videolan: VideoLAN is seriously threatened by software patents...
- Ubuntu forum discussion about whether and how ffmpeg can be distributed
[edit] Mp3 audio problems
- FFII page on mpeg licences: MPEG-related patents on compression of acoustic data
- mpeg-patents-faq ("especially for audio compression")
[edit] References
- ↑ http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020382.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#Real_Media_Player
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