Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

6 months ago by commander to c/technology

Existing licensees are grandfathered.
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Fontasia 4 points 6 months ago

Oh look just as the AV1 consortium is also deciding to do shakedowns. It's a good thing the open source community have a history of building functional and well performing codecs, especially when it comes to media formats.

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milliams 34 points 6 months ago

Maybe in misunderstanding, but that story seems to be about Dolby going after AV1, not the other way around.

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LorIps 22 points 6 months ago

Lemmy really has a piss poor reading comprehension.

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phoenixz 9 points 6 months ago

You mean the world

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