Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

David Singer <singer@apple.com> Fri, 22 November 2013 20:01 UTC

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On Nov 21, 2013, at 18:18 , Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com> wrote:

> Stefan Wenger posted a fairly detailed analysis of the H.263 situation, which I think also applies to MPEG-2.

I’m not sure I’d call that a detailed analysis;  a detailed analysis would include, for example, opening up the 31/34 patent statements for each codec, identifying the patents, and seeing whether they had yet expired.  Stephan gave an ‘informed opinion’ that, for him, the increased performance was balanced by increased risk:

On Nov 18, 2013, at 8:35 , Stephan Wenger <stewe@stewe.org> wrote:

> So is it worth evaluating H.263 further?  IMO, probably not.  It¹s
> doubtless technically better than H.261, but the risk is inproportionally
> higher.  And the whole idea of this substandard baseline codec has been to
> be essentially without risk.

but given the prevalence of the use of H.263 in existing systems and standards, I am not at all convinced we should give up on it so quickly.

I am not knocking his opinion, you understand, just questioning whether we should discard H.263 based on just this one opinion.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.