Re: [playogg-discuss] Does average porn paysite needs to pay licensing costs for proprietary codecs?

[Holmes Wilson]

It's going to get more complicated than this.

Don't have a source handy at the moment, but I think it's pretty much 
certain that they'll be charging any video publisher over a certain 
size--beyond the cost they pay for the  encoder--for distributing 
user-generated videos with advertising online using h.264.

And I think that for pay-per-download offers the rate is even higher.

Even free, over-the-air TV stations will have to pay a license fee based 
on their audience reach (in addition to what they pay for their encoder).

-Holmes


On 8/21/09 4:55 PM, Jeff wrote:
> That agrees with my understanding of licenses for codecs. No cost, in 
> regard to codec, for distrbuting multimedia. The cost is in licensing 
> software to encode and decode those media. So the producers pay to 
> encode, the audience software pays to decode. Often times the cost of 
> the license is passed in to the software user in either case.
>
> Jeff
>
> Sending from my iPhone, jailbreaked!
>
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Fyodor Vassiley 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 8/18/09, Holmes Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Figure out what the top 5 are and ask what they're paying?
> > >
> > > -Holmes
> >
> > Hi Holmes
> >
> > I wrote to several high-traffic pay sites. So far only ifeelmyself.com
> > answered (example; they have the videos available for iPhone):
> >
> > Von: Customer Service <address@hidden>
> > Datum: 20. August 2009 00:24:23 GMT+02:00
> > An: <address@hidden>
> > Betreff: Re: IFM: Contact Form
> >
> > We dont' have to pay any license fees but it's probably built into the
> > cost of our editing software.
> >
> > IFM