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Katie Boundary
10th October 2022, 05:45
The International Standards Organization?

The Motion Picture Experts Group?
hajj_3
10th October 2022, 18:42
The International Standards Organization?

The Motion Picture Experts Group?

the container or the h264 video codec? the h264 codec patents are licensed by the MPEG-LA.
filler56789
10th October 2022, 20:35
the container or the h264 video codec?

The container, I presume.
H.264 is not the only type of video stream allowed in MP4 files...
Loomis
17th October 2022, 18:16
The container itself comes directly from Apple's QuickTime container (*.mov).

It's over twenty years old. Whatever patents there ever were, have expired.

Remember that I'm talking about the container - not the content.
SeeMoreDigital
17th October 2022, 19:39
MP4 file 'container' format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4_file_format)