Codec Licensing for Tube Sites???
 

Are these tube sites paying licensing fees to use things like:

MP3
AAC
VP6
MP4
H.264

?

I highly doubt it? Think ANY of them are doing this?

yeah right :1orglaugh

lol, if the tube sites don't respect copyright holders, do you think they'll be paying licensing fees for technology rights?
WG

never heard of anybody even considering this before LOL basically everything gets converted to flv these days using ffmpeg so if ffmpeg which is open source can include it in a freely distributable application I don't see how anybody could make licensing $$$ If legal problems were to arise ffmpeg would be the first place getting hit by them.

hehe can call me stupid, I have thick skin, I'm just throwing it out there. I'm guessing they don't license them, but I'm wondering if this is also normal in the mainstream world? I don't think many people realize they're supposed to license even MP3 from Fraunhoffer or whatever if they use that for audio in their FLV files.

There are 2 levels of licensing for video codecs usually, one for people who want to use it to encode/decode (such as ffmpeg is using it) and one for people who want to distribute movies with that encoding standard.

I'm pretty sure ffmpeg just does FLV and doesn't use for example VP6, because on2 may actually go after people?

The newly adopted H.264 also requires licensing and isn't FLV, so that's another bag of worms too. I think in that case they just want the major players to license, and let the average joe use it without fear.