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Re: [rtcweb] Discussion on codec choices from a developer who doesn't come to IETF

"David Benham (dbenham)" <dbenham@cisco.com> Tue, 08 May 2012 16:37 UTC

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+1

Many companies shipping in high volume pay the annual cap and have a
marginal cost at or below 10c each and the low volumes (<100K) are free
as noted.       That leaves non-profits (or have no workable freemium
model) shipping in the millions to be about the only segment with an
hurdle.

 

From: Stephan Wenger [mailto:stewe@stewe.org] 
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 12:09 PM
To: Dean Willis; Lorenzo Miniero
Cc: rtcweb@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Discussion on codec choices from a developer who
doesn't come to IETF

 

 

From: Dean Willis <dean.willis@softarmor.com>
Date: Friday, 4 May, 2012 16:10 

[...]

[...]

	I am more worried about the guy implementing a WebRTC security
camera that uses an embedded Linux kernel and a software video encoder.
Each unit might "produce" video 24x7. But there is no MPEG-LA licensed
browser or OS or encoder chip to fall back on. The whole product might
sell for less than it might cost him to license the codec.

Really?  The MPEG-LA license terms for one encoder/decoder: $0 for the
first 100,000 units per year.  $0.20 for the next several millions,
after that $0.10 until the cap is reached.  And, the MPEG-LA license is
"take it or leave it" (at least for small fish like your hypothetical
camera guy), so even the lawyer cost for review should be minimal.

 

No, I continue to believe that the MPEG-LA license is not a hurdle for
anyone but those giving stuff away for free, or having a business model
that disallows them to pay licensing fees.  It's the patents not covered
by that license that you may worry about.

 

Stephan

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