Plans to support AV1 video codec?

[Aaron Boxer]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com
> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 08:45 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:
> > The sad thing about this new codec is that after the inventor of part
> > of the encoder helped
> > Google for 3 years to integrate his algorithm with AV1, they are now
> > trying to patent his invention:
> >
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583691
>
> AFAIU that says that Google applied for a patent. So this generally
> needs more context to say anything, but keep in mind that Google also
> supposedly owns patents related to VP8/9/10 (which it got together with
> On2 back then), but it grants a free (etc) patent license for every use
> (see the libvpx license for details/accurate wording). In theory for
> AV1 this could also be for defensive measures. Who knows? They should
> really clarify that somewhere though.
>
> However I doubt that they plan to make AV1 useless (could as well use
> HEVC then) considering how much time and effort they put into it.
>

Yes, most likely defensive. But, defensive or not, a patent shouldn't be
granted
if there is prior art, of which there seems to be plenty. Hopefully USPTO
will see the folly of their ways :)






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