[OT]h.264 alternatives

[Stephen Barncard]

Video codecs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_codec>[edit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_open-source_codecs&action=edit&section=1>
]

   - *x264 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264>* – H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC> implementation. x264 is
   not a codec (en*co*der/*dec*oder); it is just an encoder (it cannot
   decode video).
   - *OpenH264 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264>* – H.264 baseline
   profile encoding and decoding


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Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
mixstream.org

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Are you sure that a license is needed for H.264 playback? That could
> seriously impact the viability of YouTube or Vimeo, if all users had to pay
> a license fee.
>
> My hope is that the license is just paid by the encoder tool maker. If
> you’re using Adobe Media Encoder you don’t have to pay a license, Adobe
> already did.
>
> In the hope that playback doesn’t involve paying a fee, you could use
> non-H.264 encoders that make videos that are played back by anything that
> can handle H.264. That might allow you to use your own tool without a
> license fee, and still make videos that can play back everywhere.
>
> Here is an article that talks about how to solve a gamma/contrast issue
> that happens with most H.264 encoders:
>
> https://myth.li/2010/07/how-to-fix-the-h264-gamma-
> brightness-bug-in-quicktime/
>
> The solution they have is to use an x264 encoder, and the article has
> links to a QuickTime component, so that you could export to x264 from
> anything that uses QuickTime. The results are better looking than regular
> H.264.
>
> > On Jul 19, 2017, at 12:37 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Seems most folks use h.264 for encoding video, but being
> patent-encumbered it requires negotiating a license with MPEGLA for
> commercial use.
> >
>
>
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