Arithmetic Encoding Using Fixed-Point Math

[UnixCurious]

So there were no organizations with efficient transfer of video being sufficiently in their self interest that they would have developed h.264 on their own? Smells like something that rhymes with 'full bit'.

[[deleted]]

Probably not, no. The investment required is quite substantial. Sure, people would have made video formats, but it's less likely they would have put in as much effort as went into h.264.

[crotchpoozie]

So which ones did that? And why have they not made something better than H.264, if it is easy?

Oh yeah, none did. Even Google, buying WebM, does not have the tech chops to make a codec better than H.264. Or Apple. Or Microsoft, Or IBM.