Cisco contributes to the support of open source products: free provision of the h.264 video codecs
Cisco has made a significant decision to support the open source community and facilitate its efforts in developing products and tools with an important but expensive video codec. The company is now providing free H.264 video codec available for its open source products. The agreement will apply to all applications released under the GPL (General Public License) and LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License).
Cisco’s decision has been well received by the open source community. By making the H.264 codec developers can now build their products based on the powerful and widely used codec without worrying about the cost and limitations of its use. Cisco’s decision is an important step in encouraging collaboration between the open source community and proprietary technology providers.
The use of the H.264 codecs is especially important for video applications. Given the growing popularity of video content on the Internet and the increasing demand for high-quality video applications, the use of H.264 codec is essential. By making H.264 codec to the open source community, will facilitate the development of products and tools with high-quality video capabilities. This will also promote the convergence of proprietary and open technology solutions, benefiting the entire IT industry.
H.264 video codec: what is it?
The H.264 video codec is a compression method used primarily in the video encoding field. This codec ensures that video data can be stored or transmitted in the highest possible quality and with the smallest possible amount of data.