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MfA · 4th November 2007, 15:21

I don't think calling H.264 an open standard is entirely justified ... all standards are openly available, what makes an open standard is that it's free to implement IMO.

Why do you always put MPEG/AVC before ITU/H.264 BTW? MPEG's contribution came only at the end of development and their development process is undeniably less open than ITU's ... which has now also made the permanent commitment to provide their standards for free. As long as the OP has to have propaganda in the name of openness put H.264 first, although maybe no propaganda at all would be better.

Anyway, this needs to be linked in the OP :
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264/e

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MfA Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,075	I don't think calling H.264 an open standard is entirely justified ... all standards are openly available, what makes an open standard is that it's free to implement IMO. Why do you always put MPEG/AVC before ITU/H.264 BTW? MPEG's contribution came only at the end of development and their development process is undeniably less open than ITU's ... which has now also made the permanent commitment to provide their standards for free. As long as the OP has to have propaganda in the name of openness put H.264 first, although maybe no propaganda at all would be better. Anyway, this needs to be linked in the OP : http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264/e Last edited by MfA; 4th November 2007 at 15:23.