Maybe you’ve missed MPEG LA‘s announcement to keep the license for H.264 free. This has been a worry to everyone in the industry who has been offering H.264-encoded videos to consumers. Supposedly, MPEG LA, the licensing body for a number of highly popular video codecs and formats, was to start collecting licensing fees in 2016 (was set to be sooner, then got pushed back).
Today MPEG-LA stated it will keep licensing free – IF the video is free to end-users. So this means your members area videos in H.264 are possibly still subject to licensing fees. So keep this in mind when you think about offering new formats in the future…
Tags: h.264, licensing, mpeg la, tech news, video codec
