What is a good, patent-free video codec, ideally with compression? Theora is dead, Daala is unusable, and HEVC not only takes forever to encode, it's also debilitated by patents and royalty fees.
>>58204064
divx
mkv
>>58204064
MJPEG
HuffyV I suppose but not popular for after-market videos, it's used primarily for speed during capture.
There is no really good patent free codec - and you do realize that codec means COMPRESSOR-DECOMPRESSOR right? Right? Because when you ask what's a good video codec "ideally with compression" it makes you sound like a fucking moron.
HEVC takes "forever" to encode because you have a shitty computer - on newer machines with Skylake or even Kaby Lake processors it's practically real-time or faster with high profile settings and even 10 or 12 bit encoding.
LEARN ABOUT SHIT BEFORE SPOUTING OFF BITCH
>>58204064
Handbrake has support for Matroska VP9/Opus encodes now.
>>58204064
There are no good patent-free codecs. The ones that are royalty-free are only so because the patent holders have decided not to charge. A patent free codec would just have someone come along and patent it.
Just use H.264 and AAC like everyone else.
>>58204098
That's a container you retard, not a codec. Just use x264 OP
VP9
For the other idiots in the thread:
MKV aka Matroska is a CONTAINER NOT A CODEC
MP4 IS A CONTAINER NOT A CODEC
OGG IS A CONTAINER NOT A CODEC
AVI IS A CONTAINER NOT A CODEC
WEBM IS A CONTAINER
H.264 IS A CODEC
H.265 IS A CODEC
AAC IS A CODEC
VORBIS IS A CODEC
OPUS IS A CODEC
VP8 AND VP9 ARE CODECS
LEARN SHIT PLEASE AND STOP BEING IGNORANT
VP9. Google uses it on all their videos.
Takes forever to encode though.
>>58204700
One guy made a comment about mkv. Stop being a retarded baby.
>>58204709
>VP9. Google uses it on all their videos.
Really? Because YouTube is owned by Google and they don't use VP9 for "all their videos" - just grabbed the latest John Wick 2 trailer released like a week ago, h.264 encoding for video with AAC for audio like basically 99% of the videos on YouTube are (the rest are older ones that still haven't been converted yet for some ridiculous reason).
H264/x264 is the most popular codec by a wide margin, for good reason, it just werks
>>58204774
Youtube encodes everything in both VP9 and h.264 and delivers whatever you ask for.
>>58204895
No it doesn't.
>>58204064
VP9 with OPUS
>>58204064
VP9 is probably the best for your criteria.