Did MPEG LA kill media support in Java
Sun removed JMediaPane from the JavaFX build a while back. Which is bizarre since JavaFX has complete support for ON2 video. So why did this happen ? Why is JMediaPane in the JRE a problem when Web Start powered JavaFX is ok ?
The German company Nero AG is telling us that MPEG LA sued them over royalties earlier this year. Basically MPEG wants cash in hand every time someone downloads a Nero video aware product. And then the question becomes. Is this why JavaFX ON2 video support is based on Web Start ? To circumvent the MPEG LA patent pool ?
Basically MPEG LA did a very naughty thing. They added a metric ton of patents to their patent pool AFTER all the developers had signed up. So now MPEG owns the entire video marked. They can become a patent troll for the next 100 years. Just look at Canon video cameras that cost $10 000 and which are, and I kid you not, NOT for professional use ! Professional use requires that you pay royalties to MPEG every time someone downloads your video.
Nero has now filed an antitrust suit against MPEG LA. So maybe some tasty information might leak out.