Re: [rtcweb] Cisco to open source its H.264 implementation and absorb MPEG-LA licensing fees

["Karl Stahl" <[e-mail]>]

Thanks for this surprise! 

 

Hope that it will result in that we can keep codecs in the endpoints and can
avoid video transcoding in gateways.

 

/Karl

 

 

 

 

 

 

Från: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] För Jonathan
Rosenberg (jdrosen)
Skickat: den 30 oktober 2013 13:29
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Ämne: [rtcweb] Cisco to open source its H.264 implementation and absorb
MPEG-LA licensing fees

 

I’d like to make an announcement material to the conversations around MTI
video codecs in rtcweb.

 

Cisco is announcing today that we will take our H.264 implementation, and
open source it under BSD license terms. Development and maintenance will be
overseen by a board from industry and the open source community.
Furthermore, we will provide a binary form suitable for inclusion in
applications across a number of different operating systems (Windows, MacOS,
Linux x86, Linux ARM and Android ARM), and make this binary module available
for download from the Internet. We will not pass on our MPEG-LA licensing
costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this
will effectively make H.264 free for use on supported platforms. 

 

We believe that this contribution to the community can help address the
concerns many have raised around selection of H.264 as MTI. I firmly believe
that with H.264 we can achieve maximal interoperability and now, do it with
open source and for free (well, at least for others – its not free for Cisco
J)

More information on the open source project can be found at
http://www.openh264.org, which is sparse now but more coming soon.

 

 

Thx,

Jonathan R.

 

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Jonathan Rosenberg, PhD

VP, CTO Collaboration

Cisco Systems

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