If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.
What effect would this have on the world? Why should we celebrate?
The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
Submitted 21 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired
Deebster@infosec.pub 19 hours ago
Shame that no-one uses Xvid any more. We still need to wait a bit longer for H264 (AVC): meta.wikimedia.org/…/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M…
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
H264 is already old news. We be using H265 and AV1 now.
Deebster@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
Lots of media centres and TVs still can’t handle those, either cos they’re old or don’t have the processing power to handle them.
ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 19 hours ago
Dont worry, I still use xvideos 😉
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I mean xvid is pretty bad by modern standards
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So many xvid torrents… there probably still are.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Crunchy.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
I’ve still got thousands of old TV shows recorded in xvid.