Need license for using H.264 Video codec for live stream with FMS 3.5 series

[Arvind_Mehta]

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,

[SE_0208]

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.

[Arvind_Mehta]

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,

[Arvind_Mehta]

http://www.adobe.com/au/products/hdvideo/supported_technologies/h264.html

The licensimg topic of this article regarding Licensing

[SE_0208]

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.