If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.
The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired
If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.
10 Comments
Deebster@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 33d
Shame that no-one uses Xvid any more. We still need to wait a bit longer for H264 (AVC): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F
ramasses@social.ozymandias.club · 14 pts · 33d
Dont worry, I still use xvideos 😉
Chronographs@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 33d
I mean xvid is pretty bad by modern standards
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
Crunchy.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
So many xvid torrents… there probably still are.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 33d
I've still got thousands of old TV shows recorded in xvid.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 33d
H264 is already old news. We be using H265 and AV1 now.
Deebster@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 33d
Lots of media centres and TVs still can't handle those, either cos they're old or don't have the processing power to handle them.
arbitur95@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 33d
What effect would this have on the world? Why should we celebrate?
Marija_@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 31d
That's quietly a huge milestone for open media.