commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1428arrow-down16
arrow-up1422arrow-down1external-linkFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comcommander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-216 hours ago Last attempt to squeeze some money before get these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.