[FFmpeg-user] About h.264 and mpeg-2 patents

[Robert Krüger]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Massimo Battistel <battistel at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
> If using a custom LGPL build of ffmpeg for commercial porpuses, are there
> royalties to pay for the codecs in subject?
>

I think the answer is "it depends" but IANAL and you need to check
with mpeg-la. They handle licensing of h.264 and mpeg-2.

http://www.mpegla.com