This is writing as someone who flavours HEVC, but still support the AOM initiative, hopefully AV2.
1. AOM was formed in 2015, and the idea of collaborating between Mozilla and Google and others were very well known within the industry before the formation of AOM. But let's just call it 2015, so three years later in 2018, the head of MPEG, just a year ago ( 2017 ) has seen this a threat coming.
May I ask What was he doing between 2015 and 2017?
2. >all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will spread to other business segments as well.
Collectively Hundreds of millions? If there were only 10 companies paying the max cap of 25M per year, that is $250M per year from HEVC and to MPEG LA alone, excluding the other two groups and NPEs. And that is devices maker, excluding content producers. Assuming a video codec has a life time of 10 years, that is a total of $2.5 Billion minimum. Do you not think wasting hundreds of millions to save a few billion for the industry is a very good deal?
I do not known how the US and Canadian University works, but at least what the article said is true in terms of Universities funding in EU, Cooperate Sponsor etc for the work. Well at least it was true in my era of studying.
And I do not have a solution to this problem.
And I guess I cant really blame MPEG, what was originally an outrageous amount $25M now seems fair and reasonable compared to what others were asking. It is likely the greed that every company has for their IP portfolio wanted more.
1. AOM was formed in 2015, and the idea of collaborating between Mozilla and Google and others were very well known within the industry before the formation of AOM. But let's just call it 2015, so three years later in 2018, the head of MPEG, just a year ago ( 2017 ) has seen this a threat coming.
May I ask What was he doing between 2015 and 2017?
2. >all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will spread to other business segments as well.
Collectively Hundreds of millions? If there were only 10 companies paying the max cap of 25M per year, that is $250M per year from HEVC and to MPEG LA alone, excluding the other two groups and NPEs. And that is devices maker, excluding content producers. Assuming a video codec has a life time of 10 years, that is a total of $2.5 Billion minimum. Do you not think wasting hundreds of millions to save a few billion for the industry is a very good deal?
I do not known how the US and Canadian University works, but at least what the article said is true in terms of Universities funding in EU, Cooperate Sponsor etc for the work. Well at least it was true in my era of studying.
And I do not have a solution to this problem.
And I guess I cant really blame MPEG, what was originally an outrageous amount $25M now seems fair and reasonable compared to what others were asking. It is likely the greed that every company has for their IP portfolio wanted more.