| ▲ | breve 8 days ago | |
> Google funding free stuff is not a real social mechanism. It's not a social mechanism. And it's not generosity. Google pushes huge amounts of video and audio through YouTube. It's in Google's direct financial interest to have better video and audio codecs implemented and deployed in as many browsers and devices as possible. It reduces Google's costs. Royalty-free video and audio codecs makes that implementation and deployment more likely in more places. > Patent pools aren't perfect They are a long way from perfect. Patent pools will contact you and say, "That's a nice codec you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it." Three different patent pools are trying to collect licencing fees for AV1: https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programmes/audio-and-video-... | ||