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		acdha on Jan 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why BPG will replace GIFs and more The license terms for H.264 appear to require both encoder and decoder vendors to pay royalties once they ship over 100K units: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/avcweb.pdf H.264 is similar for the MPEG pool: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Documents/HEVCweb.p...

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