Resistance to MPEG4?
- Japan's mobile video content providers are threatening to snub the MPEG-4 compression format--touted as crucial technology for delivering video to mobile handsets--unless the cost of using it comes down.
Similar objections emerged with the announcement of the MPEG4 standard -- with specific reservations from Apple regarding licensing fees for content providers. The solution provided a total cap as well as a minimum subscriber threshold below which no fees are required.
Alternative solutions mentioned in this particular article include H.264 and MPEG-1. H.264 is an up and coming standard which has not yet been finalized, but has been described as threatening MPEG-4's adoption. H.264, however, appears to be an extension of the MPEG-4 and is also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. It appears that licensing for this new standard will also be handled by the MPEG LA -- the same organization who set the licensing requirements for MPEG-4.
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what can this mean for apple? if mpeg-4 ends up going out the window, do we have to find a new 'revolutionary' codec for itms?
matt
Originally posted by synthetickittie
Ya same here.. no clue whats going on. Someone wana help out and clue me in? How much is it linsense this and how much more is that then previous codecs
The link in the article links to this (licensing fees for MPEG4):
Under the new terms, owners of Web site content can license the latest video and audio compression format for 25 cents per subscriber or 2 cents per hour, subject to a $1 million annual cap. Also, MPEG LA set a minimum threshold so that content owners with fewer than 50,000 subscribers aren't subject to royalties. The fees are applicable to Web site operators that benefit commercially from use of the technology, through either paid advertisements, pay-per-view services or subscriptions.
MPEG2 (DVD's) had no license fees for content providers.... just fees for decoders/manufacterers. So.... a DVD player (or I guess the decoding chip) had a licenscing fee associated with it. So does DVD Player software, or anything that decodes MPEG2. But you can stream it without fees.
MPEG4 has streaming fees (as described abovE)
arn
If MPEG LA is serious about "formulating a standard", they need to realize they are about to cut off their nose to spite their face with their efforts to create a proprietary license with intent to gouge.
Dan
What do you consider the baggage with WiFi type G? That it is backward compatible with type B? Some sort of marketing politics? At least it is relatively smooth waters as compared to, lets say using the cell phone of your choice with the carrier of your choice.
MPEG-4 is good in0terms of file size which is smaller than ordinary .mov files.
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