How to Print Protected PDF (Acrobat)? Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA. We've all heard how the h.264 is rolled over on patents and royalties. Even with these facts, I kept supporting the best-performing "delivery" codec in the market, which is h.264. "Let the best win", I kept thinking. But it wasn't until very recently when I was made aware that the problem is way deeper. No, my friends. It's not just a matter of just "picking Theora" to export a video to Youtube and be clear of any litigation. MPEG-LA's trick runs way deeper! UPDATE: Engadget just wrote a reply to this article. UPDATE 2: Engadget's editor replied to me. UPDATE 3: And regarding royalties (as opposed to just licensing), one more reply by Engadget's editor. And no, this is not just a Canon problem (which to me sounds like false advertising). Recently, MPEG-LA extended their "free internet broadcasting AVC license" until 2015.
And then there's the other thing too: Both Youtube and Vimeo use the open source x264 encoder to encode their videos, as far as I know. Think about it. 1.
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