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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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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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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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http://www.adobe.com/au/products/hdvideo/supported_technologies/h264.html
The licensimg topic of this article regarding Licensing
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If you are just concerned about subscribers subscribing H.264 streams from FMS then you dont have to pay anything. But if you are using H.264 encoding of Flash Player i suppose you might have to pay some licensing fees to Adobe. I am pretty sure about the first part.