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Old 4th September 2015, 19:18   #12  |  Link
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Originally Posted by BadFrame View Post
I'd always assumed that the tiling was chosen due to avoiding infringing software patents, if that is the case it can only be solved by aquiring the necessary patents or being able to work around them somehow.
That is just implementation detail of decoder/encoder. They could implement frame threading like in x264 with no problem. Perhaps WPP could be patent-covered, but x264-like frame threads don't need any explicit support in format, hence you don't have a problem.

I'm afraid it is just lack of care from Google. Threading is hard, Youtube doesn't need it, let's go shopping.
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