Re: [rtcweb] Video codec selection - way forward

"Thomas Reisinger" <treising75@gmail.com> Mon, 18 November 2013 08:11 UTC

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Thank you Leon. Why should we go with h.261 (except the lower cpu
requirements for en/decoding), when we have a very popular royalty free
h.263 as a common base for most video participants?

 

 

Cheers,

 

Thomas Reisinger 

From: Leon Geyser [mailto:lgeyser@gmail.com] 
Sent: Montag, 18. November 2013 08:13
To: rtcweb@ietf.org
Cc: Basil Mohamed Gohar; Thomas Reisinger
Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Video codec selection - way forward

 

Hi Thomas,

On this list there seem to be patents listed from 1997 to 2011 for H.263:

http://www.itu.int/net4/ipr/search.aspx?sector=ITU
<http://www.itu.int/net4/ipr/search.aspx?sector=ITU&class=PS&country=-1&org=
-1&rec=H.263&prod=H.263&ps_country=-1&opt=-1&field=anokwcvd>
&class=PS&country=-1&org=-1&rec=H.263&prod=H.263&ps_country=-1&opt=-1&field=
anokwcvd

 

On 18 November 2013 08:51, Thomas Reisinger <treising75@gmail.com
<mailto:treising75@gmail.com> > wrote:

Team,

I had the same concerns about the royalty fee, but after some research I
think there aren't any more. For h.264 this still applies. H.261 is not
acceptable anymore in a HD world as it is today. Maybe somebody else cloud
put some light on the royalty fees for h.263. I will continue my research.

Cheers,

Thomas Reisinger


> On 17.11.2013, at 21:58, Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgohar@librevideo.org
<mailto:basilgohar@librevideo.org> > wrote:
>
> Thomas,
>
> The reason H.261 is even being considered is because it is an old-enough
> specification that any patents on it should have now expired.  Patents,
> and their liability on existing video formats, are amongst the biggest
> factors affecting which formats can be adopted into the rtcweb standard.
>
> H.263 most likely (I haven't checked) still has patents associated with
> it that are active and, therefore, present an issue unless the
> respective owners of said patents have publicly declared them
royalty-free.
>
>> On 11/17/2013 03:13 PM, Thomas Reisinger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Instead of h.261, I would recommend h.263 as a common base.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas
>> Sent from mobile device
>>
>>> On 17 Nov 2013, at 20:54, Maik Merten <maikmerten@googlemail.com
<mailto:maikmerten@googlemail.com> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> just wondering if something like
>>>
>>> "9. All entities SHOULD support both H.264 and VP8. All entities MUST at
least implement one of those. Entities that do not support both H.264 and
VP8 MUST implement H.261."
>>>
>>> has already popped up. My reasoning is that implementations supporting
both high performance codecs will always negotiate to use on of those -
H.261 should never be relevant there.
>>>
>>> It appears that all implementors are willing to implement either H.264
or VP8 (but not necessarily both). This obviously means that negotiation
failure regarding a high-performance codec is a possiblity. In this case
H.261 is actually useful so that basic video calls can still be established
(for instance, I guess deaf people may always appreciate a video connection,
as long as sign language can be transmitted).
>>>
>>>
>>> Maik
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 14.11.2013 12:37, schrieb Jeremy Fuller:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Gaining IETF consensus on making it mandatory to support only H.264 or
>>>> only VP8 has clearly failed. I would welcome anyone to share their
>>>> thoughts on why they believe this situation will change anytime in the
>>>> next few years.  Therefore, can I suggest that we remove items 1 and 2
>>>> from the list. Hopefully this will speed up the process by focusing
>>>> efforts towards gaining agreement on one of the remaining options.
>>>> The following alternatives has been proposed:
>>>>
>>>> 1. All entities MUST support H.264
>>>> 2. All entities MUST support VP8
>>>> 3. All entities MUST support both H.264 and VP8
>>>> 4. Browsers MUST support both H.264 and VP8, other entities MUST
>>>>   support at least one of H.264 and VP8
>>>> 5. All entities MUST support at least one of H.264 and VP8
>>>> 6. All entities MUST support H.261
>>>> 7. There is no MTI video codec
>>>> 8. All entities MUST support H.261 and all entities MUST support at
>>>>   least one of H.264 and VP8
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jeremy Fuller
>>>>
>>>>
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