There is more movement this week on the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), with French encoder maker Ateme and MPEG patent holder Vidyo, joining the royalty free compression effort. There is some confusion however, with some participants treating AOMedia’s royalty free license as if it was only intended for browser based video, while set tops and other devices would continue down the HEVC track. If our understanding is right, the emergence of AV1, the new AOMedia codec, will sweep HEVC aside, as well as allow for browser based video. We have always said that once one real time encoder supplier breaks cover, and in Ateme, this is an encoder supplier with roots further up the video chain in contribution feeds,…