Patent Troll MPEG LA Wants People to Stay With MPEG
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Waddawewant? Free video codecs! When do we... oh, look, the last MPEG-2 patent expired!
It's almost of historical interest only, but everywhere except the Philippines and Malaysia, the last MPEG-2 video encoder/decoder patents have expired.
As *nixcraft noted, what it means is that there will never again be the risk of an MPEG-2 decoder being bombed in the libre operating system world.
The company that had the patents wrapped up for licensing, MPEG LA, told the world the last US patent expired on 13 February here .
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Race on to bring AV1 open source codec to market, as code freezes
The long-heralded open source AV1 codec is now set for development of commercial product, with the code complete and ready to be frozen over the next few weeks. This has been confirmed by contributors to the standard such as Austrian transcoding software developer Bitmovin, which hopes to be among the first to bring out a product. That will happen once members of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) that developed the codec sign off its performance.
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