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Hello,

I understand that in short, anything that has anything to do with h264 includes royalty payments [excluding free internet video]

is x264 being open-source encoding subject to royalties?

what about vlc h264 open source decoding royalties?

thanks,

Royalties for what?

products which encode/decode h264.

i was reading up on hevc/vp9 and they say that i think mpeg gets millions for h264 products which would be the same for h265. so maybe manufactures/software devs [non-open source] would prefer vp9 instead because there are no royalties.

so i'm wondering if encoding/decoding h264 via open source means mpeg gets paid or not.

Sorry, but this is too vague. You mean royalties for buying what? patents, designs, implementations, products, copyrights?

I don't actually know much about royalties. I suppose another way of asking the question is,

You guys make x264. Do you guys pay mpeg? And if not, why?

No. Because we don't owe them anything.

Excellent. Thanks