Read the list of patents left: a lot of them are on SVC (no one uses this) and on higher profile.
For a lot of use cases, including Basic and Main profile, H.264 is already free.
Read the list of patents left: a lot of them are on SVC (no one uses this) and on higher profile.
For a lot of use cases, including Basic and Main profile, H.264 is already free.
Main profile is very mediocre. Any file I see in the wild is encoded in high profile.