Cisco launches royalty free HEVC / H.265 Alternative Thor

Following the announcement of a second next to the MPRG LA patent pool called HEVC Advance with new very considerable Lizenzgebuehrforderungen (16 times more than H.264) for the use of HEVC, Cisco has decided to develop a license-free video codec as an alternative - Cisco had already realized an open source implementation for H.264, which is used by Mozilla in Firefox. For the development of new codecs, the HEVC in terms of quality and speed should be equal, Cisco employs not only the two experienced video codec programmers Gisle Bjntegaard and Arild Fuldseth, but also a team of specialized in patent law attorneys and consultants to no patents of others partieshurting. Cisco also calls others to help in the further development - to interested it should because of the license requirements for HEVC and the prospect of a free alternative lacking not really. The "Thor" baptized new codec is open source and already via Github available and could be used as opposed to HEVC due to its free license in Open Source programs. Cisco has Thor submitted for standardization of a royalty-free video codec the next generation in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and does not see itself in competition with Mozilla Daala codec, which has also taken this step, but as a contribution to the common goal of an open video codec standards , The resulting codec could then contributions from two  more infos at bei blogs.cisco.com deutsche Version dieser Seite: Cisco startet lizenzfreie HEVC/H.265 Alternative Thor