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World, Meet Thor --- a Project to Hammer Out a Royalty-Free Video Codec
The patent licensing for H.265 has taken a turn for the worse. To license from the two pools can be 16 times more than H.264. Cisco started the Thor project with "some of the world's foremost codec experts. They hired patent lawyers and consultants to help work through the long list of patents. They've also submitted Thor to the Internet Engineering Task Force's NetVC project.
The patent licensing for H.265 has taken a turn for the worse. To license from the two pools can be 16 times more than H.264. Cisco started the Thor project with "some of the world's foremost codec experts. They hired patent lawyers and consultants to help work through the long list of patents. They've also submitted Thor to the Internet Engineering Task Force's NetVC project.
