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Any guesses on the minimum number of (known!) patents that must be violated to implement an H.264 decoder? I assume the answer must be greater than zero, otherwise someone would have written an clever/convoluted H.264 decoder that sidesteps known patent issues.

The AVC/H.264 patent pool contains over a thousand "essential" patents. So, at a guess, at least hundreds.

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