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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
Remember that VC-1 Simple and Main profiles predate H.264 both technically and for license terms. Microsoft (well before my time) went down the codec standard route before with MPEG-4 part 2, which turns out to be a profound disappointment across the industry - it didn't offer that much of a compression advantage over MPEG-2, and the protracted license agreement discussions scared off a lot of adoption. I was involved in many digital media projects that wouldn't even touch MPEG-4 in the late 90's to early 00's because there was going to be a "content fee" that hadn't been fully defined yet.
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MPEG-4 Part 2 has been a great success, consider: DivX, XviD, 3viX and QuickTime 6 and offers huge advantages over MPEG-2 otherwise people would have just stuck with MPEG-2 and doom9 wouldn't have XviD and DivX forums.