Cisco plans to open-source H.264 code, widen support for web-based video chat

[Chuck Crisler]

Last year Polycom announced that they would release their H264 CODEC as
open source. I haven't heard anything else about it other than to not
change resolution after the decoder starts (it crashed last year). I have
tried to get info about this but have not been successful. I don't know the
status. I guess that with h265 on the horizon (and maybe h266???) h264 is
'old hat'.

http://opensource.sys-con.com/node/2389173
http://www.polycom.com/company/news/press-releases/2012/20121008_3.html

Chuck Crisler


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:59 AM, muriel moscardini <muriel at fluendo.com>wrote:

>  hello,
>
> the Cisco announcement is great and is really interesting to follow up.
>
> Our understanding at Fluendo, as licensee of many patent holders like
> MPEGLA would be the following.
> (Please take it as our understanding, we are all still waiting for more
> details about this)
>
> 1. Cisco has announced they open their H264 codec under BSD license, and
> provide the sources to everyone, without asking for any fee.
>
> 2. Then on the other side, they apparently will provide also a binary of
> the same together with the MPEGLA patent license, at no fee either. This is
> possible as Cisco apparently decided to pay upfront the annual cap for
> H264, for this year and the following (which represents more that 10M of $
> a year). The condition is to download the soft from their facilities.
>
> Which means
> - anyone wanting to use their H264 can do it, take the source and, we
> suppose, do everything allowed by BSD (permissive license, you can modify
> and even release a new version under a proprietary license) with no other
> restriction. Let's see when it is released.
>
> - with the binary, for any application requesting H264, it is possible to
> use the binary, push the user to download directly H264 in Cisco premises
> the H264 binary and so the user will be running H264 licensed.
>
> Warning: normally as far as we know the MPEGLA patent licenses this should
> not allow people to take the the soft and resell it budnled. Apparently the
> conditions for the binary is that it has to be downloaded from Cisco web.
>
> We will follow this closely together with our legal too, as we believe
> these are great actions when possible. At Fluendo we did that some years
> ago with our MP3 decoder. We opened it under MIT license, we paid upfront
> Thomson patent for Desktop use, and we distribute it for free on our web
> including the Thomson license (grab it on www.fluendo.com). But for any
> commercial distribution, an agreement is still needed.
>
> I hope it helps
>
> regards
>
> Muriel Paumier-Moscardini
> CEO
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>
>  On 11/1/13 3:06 AM, elio francesconi wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I want to share with you this important news to know your opinion.
> Reading briefly this article it seems that Cisco, the codec's owner don't
> want royalties anymore.
> What does it means, pratically?
> Thanks
> Elio
>
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/cisco-plans-to-open-source-h-264-code-for-webrtc/?ncid=rss_truncated
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