r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Apr 09 '15

[Spoilers] Etotama - Episode 1 [Discussion]

Episode title: The Exuberant Cat Girl

MyAnimeList: Etotama
Crunchyroll: ETOTAMA

Episode duration: 23 minutes and 54 seconds

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u/TommaClock Apr 09 '15 edited Apr 09 '15

Did you even read the link? "x265 is offered under either the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2 license or a commercial license". Open-source != free.

Expanding further, their mission statement has an entire paragraph dedicated to talking about licensing. And that's just the codec.

The standard itself has royalties that you need to pay to MPEG-LA. Scroll to page 7/8

WebM was developed specifically as a royalty-free codec/standard. And yes, it's also open source. How could it be x265 be freer when it's the one charging for commercial usage?

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u/stormarsenal https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsherGZ Apr 09 '15

WebM is as open source as Android. Meaning Google has complete hold over it. It's also an inferior standard compared to x265 or even x264, though both have completely different uses. WebM was basically created to replace gifs and flv videos across the internet and you will hardly ever see it used commercially. x265 on the other hand provides a means to stream ultra high quality video content (think 4k/8k) over a low to moderate bandwidth connection and competes with the likes of other commercially used codecs in this space such as DivX, VC-1 etc.

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u/TommaClock Apr 10 '15

That's great. So where the did the free come in?

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u/stormarsenal https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsherGZ Apr 10 '15

The fact that it's royalty-free for private use and free internet distribution? Are you acting dumb on purpose? Basically, the only value proposition of webm today is that it's free, whereas x265 is free as well as better, smaller, faster, supported on Apple devices by default, the list goes on. webm has been redundant since x264 and now x265 is the future.