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minus-squareVenia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·10 hours agoWe all knew this was going to happen one day or another. Where’s Theora these days, byw? Wasn’t it the encoding blessed by the license druids?
minus-squareFG_3479@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoTheora is an old and very inefficient codec. VP8, VP9, and now AV1 have succeeded it.
minus-squareVenia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoBut all of those are VPs are patent encumbered, right?
We all knew this was going to happen one day or another.
Where’s Theora these days, byw? Wasn’t it the encoding blessed by the license druids?
Theora is an old and very inefficient codec. VP8, VP9, and now AV1 have succeeded it.
But all of those are VPs are patent encumbered, right?