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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million
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What about Matroska? That was open to begin with, wasn't it? Is it not good for streaming?
MKV is a container format for bundling together streams of audio, video, and text. It does not provide the actual video compression, which is still typically h.264 or h.265.
Understood. They mentioned mpeg4 in the text, which (because of the MP4 container) got me on that route. Thanks for the clarification.
Unrelated, screw you for getting that jingle stuck in my head for another week.
Lol what jungle? Or... do I even want to know?
Your username…now with better looking drivers!
Oh! Hahahahhahhahaha!!!
What country have I got? Hello?...
where did you get the number from, if you're not getting the references?
not to gatekeep, i'm just confused
...I do get the reference. Thus the userID, avatar, and name. And my previous comment, once I understood ayyy was referring to my username and not my previous comment. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question?
maybe i wasn't getting it, but i didn't remember a "what country did i get" line, although i can imagine it
also i don't see an avatar or name, just the emergency number on my android client. i was gonna check it on my pc but i forgot.
Moss causes a fire, and tries calling number. He can't remember all of it, so he just enters some numbers to the tune. It's a hilarious scene lol
Not sure why you don't see my avatar or name. I'm on browser, and see everyone's.
Edit. Minute 1.27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ
The other answer you got hits it on the head already.
Here's an additional piece of info you might like: The webm container format is actually a specific subset of Matroska. The big players in the web recognised that it was a very useful open container format and adopted it for the web. They took a subset to make implementation in browsers easier and more uniform.
I did not know that, and I do like that piece of info! Thanks!