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drakaal on Sept 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: FTC publishes a long list of questions it wants to...

MPEG LA also collects for software implementations Who do you think Microsoft Pays for the h.264 decoder in Windows.

X264 is derived from the SMPTE Sample code that is provided by the standards body. It is Open Source but it is not Free.

XorNot on Sept 29, 2013 [–]

Functionally indistinguishable - x264 don't sell it. x265 was created precisely so vendors could sell it.

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