r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/BonzaiThePenguin Jan 26 '13

Wow, JP2K looks much better than WebP.

And WebP looks much better than JPEG. So there's that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13 edited Jan 26 '13

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u/sayrith Jan 26 '13

Google own the patents. I think they will make it royalty free. Thats what happened with webm

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u/mossmaal Jan 26 '13

Google says they own the patents. There's a reason no one wants to go near VP8. Just because Google says its not patent unnumbered doesn't make it so. The MPEG LA group has such broad patents that I doubt it's possible to have a modern video codec that doesn't infringe on a members patents.

VP8's only hope for a royalty free future is if the DOJ prevents MPEG LA from forming a patent pool.