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I am hoping that the industry moves the direction that cryptography did: patented algorithms never see any traction.

Daala is an open source, patent-free codec that aims to be superior to h265

... that'll probably be as popular as ogg-vorbis. Compression algorithms simply don't benefit that much from outside scrutiny (like encryption does), so without major corporate backing, (open) standards are very unlikely to succeed.

For corporate backing, see the list of companies at http://aomedia.org/about-us/ . It's immensely impressive, to say the least.

Well, ogg-opus is available in almost all youtube videos and for podcasts I usually download them in that format and listen to them in my phone.

I understand what you say and it's a shame. Opus/vorbis are just so much better than any alternative...

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