Unternehmen erhöht stillschweigend die H.264-Streaming-Lizenzgebühren von 100.000 US-Dollar auf unglaubliche 4,5 Millionen US-Dollar – der Backbone-Codec des Internets erlebt einen kometenhaften Anstieg, AVC-Anstiege folgen katastrophalen H.265-Lizenzerhöhungen
https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/h264-streaming-license-fees-jump-from-100000-to-4-5-million
29 Kommentare
Everyone seems to be trying the kill the voice of the free internet as quickly as possible.
That’s weird, the price of everything on my pirate ship stayed exactly the same.
AV1 exists and while not as widely supported, every media playing device i have can play it. No need for proprietary codecs in this day and age.
Patent trolls gonna patent troll
And this is why you must not have proprietary standards.
Close room engineering….
Bruh what like every security camera ever uses this protocol and none pay their fee
Why I’ll always support pirating software
Why are all companies doing things “quietly”. if you’re posting here it’s beyond quiet
Over under on LG pulling a bullshit move of removing it from late 2026 releases.
Just like they fucked us on DTS support.
Its like overcharging for insulin.
That’s depressing. It’s like the camera guy who wanted a cut off everything filmed with. Or the guy who thought he patented anything with a scene involving multiple 3d objects. Jerks.
Expect this to be in Netflix’s excuse bucket when they increase prices again in 6 months, despite it being a drop or two from their bucket.
H.264 is already largely patent free, what?
Murica! Land of the fee.
Webm bro… webm…
don’t know about everyone else but I definitely saw a 4,500% increase in the cost of all my h.264 content, everything went from $0 to $0!
So does this mean people will move to the open sourced x265?
And thats why you should always try to support open source and be very vary of proprietary do-gooders.
Thats we needed tariffs on already established codecs. Foreign bits and bytes, stealing the jobs of hard working american bits and bytes. Crunching data somewhere offshore, while they could’ve been crushed in goode ol‘ Murica. Could also be greed. Not sure.
Some real-world perspective to add here: My small business licenses AAC, H.264, H.265 and even the upcoming H.266 (VVC) through VIA. Before they existed, in order to license any of these codecs you would have needed to strike proprietary deals with hundreds of companies that hold associated patents across multiple countries. They make it possible for the little guys to actually properly license the codecs and you need to be selling hundreds of thousands of video units or subscriptions before you are expected to pay your first dime. Even then, it’s on the order of a few cents to a dollar per unit/subscriber. Anybody getting these increased fees can absolutely afford it. Plus these are not recurring fees, they are only based on the total number of unit sales overall. So if it helps VIA stay in business, I say why shouldn’t companies like Adobe pay up to a negligibly higher fee cap?
Oh no, what will firms with 100 million plus subscribers do now, the previous 16 price hikes won’t cover this properly
Yikes maybei should from now on not encode my videos in H.264 or H.265 to protest
It’s the last gasp to squeeze money out of h.264 as the patents are expiring.
So what happens when i ask an ai to build me a codec that is compliant with current standards?
Can someone please explain this to a layperson?
It’s funny how they increase the fee for AVC as most patents in it are expiring.
Glad to see more and more people are getting lessons in why they should care about Open-Source software.
Hopefully companies can pump some money into good OS alternatives
Well IP video switching is about to get really fucking more expensive again