Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Gnomemeeting's future

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 09 février 2005 à 22:29 +0100, Stefan Bruens a écrit :
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 22:08 schrieb Damien Sandras:
> > > (When will Gnomemeeting support H264 or some other codec with higher
> > > compression rate? Will it?)
> >
> > All those codecs are patented. The best we can hope is that the software
> > patents are rejected in Europe. If not, the only hope is with paying
> > proprietary codecs pluggable into gnomemeeting.
> 
> H.264 should be possible. From the MPEG LA Licensing Terms:
> "Royalties to be paid by end product manufacturers for an encoder, a decoder 
> or both (“unit”) begin at US $0.20 per unit after the first 100,000 units 
> each year.  There are no royalties on the first 100,000 units each year.  
> Above 5 million units per year, the royalty is US $0.10 per unit."
> 
> If we go beyond the 100.000 unit limit, I think we have different things to 
> worry about :-)
> 
> For more info, see http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_03-11-17_avc.html
> 
> A GPLed encoder is available here:
> http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
> 
> FFMPEG can dedode h.264.
> 
> So the only thing we really lack is time.
> 

And how would we pay the licences fees?


> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan
> 
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