{"id":273963,"date":"2010-02-03T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5463728"},"modified":"2010-02-03T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:50:41","slug":"h-264-will-stay-royalty-free-for-free-internet-video-through-2016-but-dont-clap-yet-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273963","title":{"rendered":"H.264 Will Stay Royalty-Free for Free Internet Video Through 2016 (But Don&#8217;t Clap Yet) [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appropriately following our explainer on why <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5461711\/giz-explains-why-html5-isnt-going-to-save-the-internet?skyline=true&#038;s=i\">HTML5 won&#8217;t save the internet<\/a> (yet) and the embedded discussion about video codecs and the future of internet video, MPEG LA&mdash;who licenses the h.264 codec&mdash;has announced they&#8217;re going to continue H.264&#8217;s royalty freeness for free internet video through 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Which sounds like it melts some of Mozilla&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.0xdeadbeef.com\/weblog\/2010\/01\/html5-video-and-h-264-what-history-tells-us-and-why-were-standing-with-the-web\/\">core objections<\/a> to anointing h.264 the internet video standard, but shnope. They&#8217;re pretty committed to a fully free and open standard. Just see Mozilla engineering VP&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/shaver.off.net\/diary\/2010\/01\/23\/html5-video-and-codecs\/\">longer post on the subject<\/a>. What, you thought things would actually get resolved anytime soon? [<A href=\"http:\/\/www.mpegla.com\/main\/Pages\/Media.aspx\">MPEG LA<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2010\/02\/03\/h264-free-2016\">Daring Fireball<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=71a9d5716a3e106fff05f8362c6e80dd&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=71a9d5716a3e106fff05f8362c6e80dd&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FT1cEhNTBGY:tCm7MHRTXBw:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FT1cEhNTBGY:tCm7MHRTXBw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FT1cEhNTBGY:tCm7MHRTXBw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=FT1cEhNTBGY:tCm7MHRTXBw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FT1cEhNTBGY:tCm7MHRTXBw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=FT1cEhNTBGY:tCm7MHRTXBw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/FT1cEhNTBGY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appropriately following our explainer on why HTML5 won&#8217;t save the internet (yet) and the embedded discussion about video codecs and the future of internet video, MPEG LA&mdash;who licenses the h.264 codec&mdash;has announced they&#8217;re going to continue H.264&#8217;s royalty freeness for free internet video through 2016. Which sounds like it melts some of Mozilla&#8217;s core objections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}