The Honeymoon Openh264 !exclusive! »

This "honeymoon" phase allowed open-source projects to use the H.264 video codec —the world’s most popular video standard—without paying millions in patent royalties. The OpenH264 Breakthrough

They weren’t in the consumer codec business. They made routers. OpenH264 was a loss leader to ensure that WebRTC (real-time communication) worked smoothly on their hardware. Happy WebRTC meant more video traffic. More traffic meant more routers sold. the honeymoon openh264

In 2013, Cisco Systems did something that shocked the open-source world. They announced : a full-featured, production-quality H.264 encoder and decoder. But here was the twist: Cisco would pay the patent royalties themselves . This "honeymoon" phase allowed open-source projects to use

During those early years, OpenH264 was everything a developer could want in a partner: reliable, legally safe, and highly compatible. and highly compatible.