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摘要

The newly formed Alliance for Open Media - a collaboration of seven major Internet and software companies - will develop video-streaming formats, codecs and other technologies that are intended to shake up existing systems used across platforms and networks. One initial goal of the alliance is to build "a next-generation royalty-free video codec." That's a way of bypassing the licensing fees that MPEG LA collects on behalf of its 35 patent-holding members, which include Apple, CableLabs, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony.