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Arvind Mehta
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February 18, 2013
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Need license for using H.264 Video codec for live stream with FMS 3.5 series

  • February 18, 2013
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Hi,

    I am creating a live audio-Video chat application  in which I use H264 video codec for live streaming.  I am using Flash Media Server version 3.5.7. I read some where that H.264 Video streaming using FMS required seperate licencse. So I want to confirm , It is true that H264 video streaming required seperate license? If yes then what is the procedure to get license.

Please let me know its urgent.

Regrads,

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Adobe Employee
SE_0208
Adobe Employee
February 19, 2013

Where did you read this? I am not sure about the same. I mean technically for it to work you need not procure any license but i dont know about generic H.264 license based on usage. You need seperate license for AAC (Audio) encoding i.e. you need to buy MainConcept Plug-in and corresponding license from MainConcept of its usage with FMLE.

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Arvind MehtaAuthor
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February 19, 2013

Hi Again,

Thanks for your reply.

Here are some articles/posts which says about Royalties to use h264:

http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf 15:27

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=65403&PageNum=3

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf

According to these, any  product/service provider, need to pay one time fee based on # of subscribers if we are using h264 for encoding and is charging fee from its users.

About our business: We are web-conferencing solution tool provider and are using Flash Media Server version 3.5.7. I for audio/video. Please help me out if h264 is really free for us or we need to buy license to use that.

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Regards,

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