[M4IF Discuss] Apple settles MPEG-4 dispute?

[Ben Waggoner]

Craig,
    Indeed.  For example, QT6 preview includes AAC-LC encoding.  That may
make just using QuickTime for AAC encoding a very compelling alternative to
licensing the rather expensive codec directly.
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on 6/6/02 8:07 AM, Craig Birkmaier at craig   pcube.com wrote:
> In a very real sense, QuickTime already represents a royalty pool.
> Because of the plug-in architecture, Apple licenses many technologies
> for use within the QuickTime Architecture - MPEG-4 is just another
> set of codecs and tools to be included in this pool. I can easily
> imagine Apple offering an all encompasing QuickTime license that
> would include a range of third party IP such as MPEG-4, along with
> some of the Apple IP incorporated iin QuickTime.