H.264 licensing for Flash Lite for OEMs


Via embeddedflash – ” Flash Lite 3 (and now 4) can be customized to support h.264 video but the license for h.264 needs to be purchased separately by OEMs”. H.264 has a different licensing structure for devices and internet users. For non PC type devices, h.264 licenses is free upto 100K units and it costs $0.2 per unit upto 5 million units and $0.1 per unit after 5 million units. They cap the royalty at $5M for 2009-2010.

If you are planning on using Flash Lite with h.264, you’ll have to consider these costs.Often times third party vendors optimize the codec for a chipset and charge additional royalty. OEMs should consider these costs also for BOM calculation.




March 10, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Flash Lite, Mobile

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