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anthk 60 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

H.263 was used as the former codec of Netmeeting (and maybe some other VoIP software too).

userbinator 60 days ago [–]

H.263 was definitely a standard in videoconferencing and low-bitrate video in general (YouTube and many other streaming sutes used FLV1, which was a variant of H.263) prior to H.264.

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