Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players
Posted by Regina McCombs at 1:16 PM on Feb. 5, 2010
In at least a short-term boon for HTML5 proponents, the consortium of groups that own the patents for the H.264 video-encoding codec announced Thursday that it will not seek royalties for another five years on videos that use the codec and are free to end users.