The organization behind the H.264 video codec — MPEG-LA — has announced that the license for H.264 codec is going to be forever free in response to Google’s open codec. MPEG-LA’s patent pool has patent holders like Apple and Microsoft. H.264 is a HD codec and very popular for use in online video/media. Earlier H.264 had decided to wave the royality fee till December 31, 2015.
Now that the codec is royalty free, it needs to be seen how it would stand against Google’s Open codec — VP8 for HTML5 which Google acquired earlier and made open-source. It’s most probably going to turn into a war like BlueRay against HD-DVD, but maybe on a smaller scale.
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