On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:56 PM Leigh Scott <leigh123li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/30/18 5:20 AM, Leigh Scott wrote: > > > > Thanks Leigh. I see those have already made progress in code review. > +1000 > > > > Is there a definitive reason why those are necessary to go in RPM > fusion? Was > > Tom Hughes right? > > > > Dusty > > This sums up the situation > > > http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/High-Efficiency-Image-File-Format-HEIF-HEIC-support-td70229.html IANAL, and I know basically nothing about codec patents, but it might be worth noting that there are a whole bunch of video coding techniques that are presumably completely unnecessary for decoding video *stills*, i.e. I-frames. Things like motion compensation are irrelevant if there's no motion. So it's at least slightly plausible that any patents in question wouldn't apply to a heavily stripped down decoder that only implemented the parts of the spec needed to decode HEIF.
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