Confusingly, there are two different MPEGs in this context.
MPEG the standards group is organized by ISO and IEC, along with JPEG.
The one you’re thinking of - MPEG LA, the licensing company - is a patent pool (which has since been subsumed by a different one[1]) that’s unaffiliated with MPEG the standards group.
So what good is it to have a separate entity doing the standard when the standard is unaffordable outside the top 500?
Arent all MPEG patents expired?
No, they’re in a patent pool. There’s what looks like a relatively up-to-date list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via-LA#H.265/HEVC_licensors
> And the MPEG folks were so cool with video, all that licensing BS. Sounds great. No thanks!
Not wrong, but this is a different topic/objection than the GP's 'being locked into Apple's ecosystem'.
And as the Wikipedia article for HEIC shows, there's plenty of support for the format, even in open source OSes.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...
As far as I know, that's only support for the container format. You can't actually decode HEIC without also installing libde265, which you are supposed to have a license for. I'm not even sure how you'd go about getting an individual license.
> You can't actually decode HEIC without also installing libde265, which you are supposed to have a license for. I'm not even sure how you'd go about getting an individual license.
Debian doesn't seem to have a problem with it:
And the MPEG folks were so cool with video, all that licensing BS. Sounds great. No thanks!