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Tanshu
19th June 2004, 15:23
I was just browsing through and just read this

GPac Site (http://gpac.sourceforge.net/news.php)
January 2004 - Dark Times
As of 1st January 2004 distribution of MPEG-4 Systems binaries is subject to the MPEG-4 patent pool and this is sad news for many of us: MP4Tool from ENST will no longer be released, nor tools encouraging people to dive into MPEG-4. So please READ AND BUG people at MPEG-LA to force them review the MPEG-4 Systems licensing terms (more to come soon on GPAC...).


Information about the MP4 Licence is not available in this forum. I was just wondering about this means. Does it mean that royalties have to be paid before distributing tools which work with MP4? Is it for the container or the coded?

bond
19th June 2004, 17:54
mpeg-4 systems is iso 14996-1 and needs to be licensed

the mp4 container is iso 14496-14 and is license free

these are two different things!

Tanshu
19th June 2004, 18:18
k, cool. thanx for the info.