> Here are a few, out of close to 180 standards: MP3 for digital music (1992), MPEG-2 for digital television (1994), MPEG-4 Visual for video on internet (1998), MP4 file format for mobile handsets (2001),
well mp3 was mostly frauenhofer, not mpeg (yes they created the standard, etc. but the most patentable work was done by the frauenhofer) also the date... on 1992 it was not (yet) called mp3. it's silly to actually name it in the mpeg sense...
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not a fan of mpeg, but if I would be them I would try to form a non profit and actually try to collect money like that instead of being a super duper not obvious big licensing company.
I mean H.265 was released in 2013 and it's still not as widely used as it could be and better fully open source alternatives emerge quicklier than ever.
It was called MPEG2 Layer III, right? And the licensing around mp3 is why many Linux distributions didn't offer mp3 in the default install, without adding "non-free" repositories.
We also saw open standards emerge, like Ogg Vorbis and FLAC (although neither were widely adopted by hardware vendors compared to Apple's AAC/ALAC)
It is not "Apple's AAC". Apple did not have any part in the development of AAC. It was actually developed by Fraunhofer as a successor to their MP3 encoding.
IIRC, MP3 was based on the audio component of the first "MPEG" standard (the one used for Video CDs) rather than MPEG2 (the one used for DVDs, amongst other things), which would make it "MPEG Layer III".
well mp3 was mostly frauenhofer, not mpeg (yes they created the standard, etc. but the most patentable work was done by the frauenhofer) also the date... on 1992 it was not (yet) called mp3. it's silly to actually name it in the mpeg sense...
Edit: not a fan of mpeg, but if I would be them I would try to form a non profit and actually try to collect money like that instead of being a super duper not obvious big licensing company. I mean H.265 was released in 2013 and it's still not as widely used as it could be and better fully open source alternatives emerge quicklier than ever.