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What does this mean for the WebRTC developers who made Opus and are now looking at making a video codec?

It would have been nice to have examples of video that didn't step on MPEGLA's patents.

There is a push to make VP8 MTI for WebRTC, but there was obvious pushback from people who preferred H.264, despite most of the normal arguments for H.264 (hardware support) have zero bearing on the low-latency requirements of WebRTC (most hardware encoders can't meet the requirements for videochat).

Those people didn't have an argument and can't even pretend they have one now.

What's going to happen next is that all in the MPEG-LA will still oppose making VP8 MTI (because the licensing for it is obviously way less interesting for them compared to H.264), but any neutral bystanders might be swayed more in the direction of VP8.

It would have been nice to have examples of video that didn't step on MPEGLA's patents.

We have, it's called VP8.

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