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HOLY SHIT THE h.264 PATENTS EXPIRE THIS YEAR LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO
i will Always simp for the good enough 20-years-old video or audio format that Just Works and man is h.264 that
we don't need anything else we will just have h.264 + aac .mp4s for everything, the world shall heal
‪check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F for the nuances, there may be stragglers in some jurisdictions‬
@hikari gosh I can’t believe the Canadian patent expired on my birthday
@demize 💖
@hikari there's some more nuance here since I looked this up previously: priority date >= spec date isn't enough to disqualify the patents in the US. They get a 1 year grace period from publication in the US iirc, and the earliest actual publication date (different from date when they voted on finalising the spec) I found of the spec is not March but like September iirc.