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AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't read the linked PDFs in the article, but the article itself doesn't mention what patents AV1 would have broken.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

but the article itself doesn’t mention what patents AV1 would have broken

The article does mention and links them

Dolby is accusing Snap of infringing upon four of its patents: U.S. Patent No. 10,855,99 “Inter-plane prediction”; U.S. Patent No. 9,924,193 “Picture coding supporting block merging and skip mode”; U.S. Patent No. 9,596,469 “Sample array coding for low-delay”; and U.S. Patent No. 10,404,272 “Entropy encoding and decoding scheme.”