Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

HOLY SHIT THE h.264 PATENTS EXPIRE THIS YEAR LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari isnt like vp9 patent free already

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to ✧✦Catherine✦✧)

@whitequark possibly? but it doesn't have hardware decoding in every single device released in the smartphone era

Saagar Jha

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@hikari Can Wikipedia finally offer actual video soon

greeeeen :v_alloaro_2: (girlfriend arc)

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@hikari@social.noyu.me hmmm, how did mpv implement it them, if it's still patented?

Miya Ironami :miyapet: Former laundry pet

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@hikari@social.noyu.me @green@talk.marq42.xyz well in VLC's case, it's ran by a french association and software parents are not a thing in Europe

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Miya Ironami :miyapet: Former laundry pet)

@iro_miya @green i think it's more complicated than that but yes vlc/ffmpeg/mpv/etc essentially don't care about us software patent praxis and sort of get away with it, if you're a megacorp and use their software you might get sued tho

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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i will Always simp for the good enough 20-years-old video or audio format that Just Works and man is h.264 that

we don't need anything else we will just have h.264 + aac .mp4s for everything, the world shall heal

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alarmed feet operative: kimothy siddon

(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari not to mention there's a truckload of hardware encoding / decoding support for it out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC_products_and_implementations#Prominent_hardware_implementations

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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@kim exactly exactly exactly! everything from the post-iphone world has it

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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‪check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F for the nuances, there may be stragglers in some jurisdictions‬

demize

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@hikari gosh I can’t believe the Canadian patent expired on my birthday

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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@demize 💖