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Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgohar@librevideo.org> Wed, 20 November 2013 21:57 UTC

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On 11/20/2013 04:53 PM, Thomas Reisinger wrote:
> From my opinion we should stick with h.263 even the minimal risk or licences for the implementer. H261 is a no go for me.
> 
> Thomas Reisinger

Thomas,

The point of choosing something aside from VP8 and H.264, which are both
superior to H.263, is to *completely* avoid all raised and known
licensing concerns in the mandatory part of the spec.

This is where H.261 has any value at all in this discussion, even more
so than any alleged quality tweaks and performance.  It is because any
rtcweb implementation can include a standards-compliant H.261 en/decoder
without worrying at all about patent risks.

If we're willing to accept even a small degree of patent risk, then that
opens up the door to formats far superior to H.261 and even H.263,
several of which have already been presented.

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