Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgohar@librevideo.org> Fri, 22 November 2013 02:00 UTC

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On 11/21/2013 08:23 PM, David Singer wrote:
> 
> Can someone remind me why classic H.263 (with possibly the minor tweaks for picture size limits etc.) is problematic?
> 

For exactly the same reasons H.264 (for some) and VP8 (for others) - IPR
issues due to not being old enough for anything patented in the standard
to be guaranteed to have expired.

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