• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    Thing that bothers me is these guys are claiming to have patents over AV1.

    The whole point of av1 is it supposed to be free of this bullshit.

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      17 hours ago

      Aye, but AV1 uses math to make the videos smaller, which is the same technology h.264 uses, so clearly it’s patent infringement!

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        5 hours ago

        This is why software patents were a horrible idea. We were all warned.

        Still, I thought the whole objective of AV1 was to avoid any incumbrances.