What makes it seem probable that it is patent-encumbered? Is there something specific I can read about or is it just the track record of previous standards (starting with arithmetic encoding in the first JPEG)?
HEIC is barely used and seems very cherry-picked to find something that IS still royalty encumbered.
Pretty much all modern video/audio/image codecs are
The exact opposite is true. The most popular modern codecs are almost all royalty-free. WebP, AVIF, JXL are all royalty-free. VP9/AV1 are royalty-free. Opus is royalty-free.
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What makes it seem probable that it is patent-encumbered? Is there something specific I can read about or is it just the track record of previous standards (starting with arithmetic encoding in the first JPEG)?
Pretty much all modern video/audio/image codecs are, look at HEIC for example.
HEIC is barely used and seems very cherry-picked to find something that IS still royalty encumbered.
The exact opposite is true. The most popular modern codecs are almost all royalty-free. WebP, AVIF, JXL are all royalty-free. VP9/AV1 are royalty-free. Opus is royalty-free.