<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Sean DuBois <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@siobud.com" target="_blank">sean@siobud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5">On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:12:18PM -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Dröge <<a href="mailto:sebastian@centricular.com">sebastian@centricular.com</a><br>
> > wrote:<br>
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> > On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 08:45 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:<br>
> > > The sad thing about this new codec is that after the inventor of part<br>
> > > of the encoder helped<br>
> > > Google for 3 years to integrate his algorithm with AV1, they are now<br>
> > > trying to patent his invention:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583691" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/<wbr>item?id=14583691</a><br>
> ><br>
> > AFAIU that says that Google applied for a patent. So this generally<br>
> > needs more context to say anything, but keep in mind that Google also<br>
> > supposedly owns patents related to VP8/9/10 (which it got together with<br>
> > On2 back then), but it grants a free (etc) patent license for every use<br>
> > (see the libvpx license for details/accurate wording). In theory for<br>
> > AV1 this could also be for defensive measures. Who knows? They should<br>
> > really clarify that somewhere though.<br>
> ><br>
> > However I doubt that they plan to make AV1 useless (could as well use<br>
> > HEVC then) considering how much time and effort they put into it.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Yes, most likely defensive. But, defensive or not, a patent shouldn't be<br>
> granted<br>
> if there is prior art, of which there seems to be plenty. Hopefully USPTO<br>
> will see the folly of their ways :)<br>
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> > --<br>
> > Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · <a href="http://www.centricular.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.centricular.com</a><br>
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> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-<wbr>devel</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>Hi Sean,<br></div><div class="gmail-h5"> <br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I would love to take this on! I have only written very small patches<br>
that have been committed, but have a bunch of elements that I wrote that<br>
haven't been shared.<br>
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Does anyone have any recommendations for something I should use for<br>
inspiration? vp8enc is in good, and maybe simpler then vp9enc?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Awesome! Here is the bugzilla issue:  <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784160">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784160</a><br><br></div><div>And here is my very preliminary start to the patch, based on vp9:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/gst-plugins-base/tree/784160-av1">https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/gst-plugins-base/tree/784160-av1</a><br><a href="https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/gst-plugins-good/tree/784160-av1">https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/gst-plugins-good/tree/784160-av1</a><br><br></div><div>You can fork these, or start from scratch, as you wish.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Aaron<br><br><br></div><br></div></div></div>