HEVC Advance Eliminates Content Distribution Royalty Fees and Reduces Certain Royalty Rates and Caps Changes will accelerate consumers’ access to the best video experiences wherever and however they choose. BOSTON – (March 13, 2018) – HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that it has eliminated “subscription” and “title-by-title” content distribution from the HEVC A

Despite the amount of technology in a shiny new smartphone, it’s hard not to feel a bit of sticker shock when buying one. Here’s something that may be even more shocking: as much as one third of what you paid for that new smartphone goes not for hardware but to pay patent royalties to companies you may not have even heard of. This holiday season, we invite you to spend a few minutes getting to kno

Patents are challenging for open-source software. But that doesn't mean they aren't challenging for others, too! Thankfully, the heroes from our most beloved RPGs and stories never had to deal with patents. But what if they did? Controls: arrow keys to move, spacebar to select/advance dialogue, hold "down" arrow key to increase dialogue speed Confused about the story? Read the Spoilers! (show) Rum

Mozilla is on the cusp of changing our policy about our use of video codecs and making use of a format  known as “H.264.” We have tried to avoid this for a number of years, as H.264 is encumbered by patents.  The state of video on the Web today and in mobile devices in particular is pushing us to change our policy.  Brendan has written a post detailing why many of us have come to support this posi

I want to land bug 714408 on mozilla-central as soon as I get review for it. It adds hardware-accelerated audio/video decoding support to Gecko using system decoders already present on the system. Android, for example, ships by default with a number of decoders, and in particular for such mobile devices we really have to use these hardware-accelerated decoders for good battery life (and performanc

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Recently, Vimeo and YouTube announced that they were moving to support the HTML5 video tag, as DailyMotion did last summer. This is an important step in making video a first-class citizen of the modern web, and that is great news. Unlike DailyMotion, however, Vimeo and YouTube chose to rely on the patented H.264 video encoding, rather than an unencumbered encoding like Ogg Theora. This means that

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