Re: Quicktime & H.264

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 20:55 -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> 
> > They seem to be fond of calling it an open standard, but by the look of
> > things its covered by patents and still needs some form of licensing
> > fees?
> 
> 	Open != free. That has always been true with these "open"
> standards codecs. MPEG-1, 2, 4, MP3, AC3, H.261, H.263, and now H.264.
> They are all open, for a price.
> 

Besides layer 3 audio are there any other parts of MPEG-1 that require
royalties/ impose restrictions on its use?  All my googling seems to
turn up information on the other MPEG standards and layer 3 audio.

thanks
Jonathan



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