Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on Cisco's royalty free video codec?

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Cisco has hired patent lawyers and consultants familiar with video codecs and  
created a development process which they say allows them to work through the  
long list of patents in the space, and continually evolve their codec to work  
around or avoid other HEVC related patents.  
http://www.testbells.com/300-135.html Two weeks ago Cisco open-sourced the  
code and contributed it to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which  
already has a standards activity to develop a next-generation royalty free  
video codec in its NetVC workgroup. This is a group Mozilla has been active  
in and has been working on technology they call Daala, which they want to be  
the successor to HEVC.