Comment on The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has ExpiredparentComments−userbinator1moDivX/XviD yes, but not H.263. Patents for H.263 expired long ago. This is MPEG-4 ASP, which is a superset of H.263.(Source: have written a H.263 decoder as a learning exercise.)−anthk1moH.263 was used as the former codec of Netmeeting (and maybe some other VoIP software too).−userbinator1moH.263 was definitely a standard in videoconferencing and low-bitrate video in general (YouTube and many other streaming sutes used FLV1, which was a variant of H.263) prior to H.264.
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DivX/XviD yes, but not H.263. Patents for H.263 expired long ago. This is MPEG-4 ASP, which is a superset of H.263.
(Source: have written a H.263 decoder as a learning exercise.)
H.263 was used as the former codec of Netmeeting (and maybe some other VoIP software too).
H.263 was definitely a standard in videoconferencing and low-bitrate video in general (YouTube and many other streaming sutes used FLV1, which was a variant of H.263) prior to H.264.