[Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

[David Gerard]

On 17 January 2014 15:03, Ted Chien <hsiangtai.chien at gmail.com> wrote:

> From my knowledge when I was working as an engineer in the multimedia
> software company back in 2006, if there's no transcoding to MP* formats, no
> patent fee is required. So if you upload MP4 files then download them
> without any transcoding it should be fine (correct me if I'm wrong). We'd
> only been charged by MPEG LA for encoding the MPEG-4 video at that time.



So we'd be fine transcoding *from* MPEG4?


- d.