James:
Internationally, many companies are starting their own video based industries. In China, for example, they just do not recognize patents, MPEG and the like. China has their own H.264-lite that they consider to unencumbered by MPEG and the US/EU courts. Good for China, now you know where to get H.s64 compliant technology....(Mpeg4-AVC).
I'm not so sure that situation is even "good for China". But it is what it is.
And I don't think that a USA interest can adopt a Chinese H.264 library as a way to get around the USA patent/copyright system. The Chinese are setting up their own sandbox.
b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com