Who owns the patents on the MP4 format?

Katie Boundary · 10th October 2022, 05:45

The International Standards Organization?

The Motion Picture Experts Group?

hajj_3 · 10th October 2022, 18:42

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Originally Posted by Katie Boundary

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

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Originally Posted by hajj_3

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

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