Technology licensing group Avanci dropped a bombshell just as the finishing touches were being put on the last issue of Faultline – unveiling the new consolidatory Avanci Video patent pool. There are immediate issues to iron out in the Marconi-owned group’s one-stop shop strategy. The multi-codec Avanci Video pool houses licenses for HEVC, AV1, VP9, and VVC, as well as the MPEG-DASH suite of standards. These five core technologies can be wrapped into a single license, for the unlikely few licensing all five, or more likely is that licenses are tailored based on individual requirements – in what is an attempt to be the contemporary adhesive in a historically fragmented and turbulent codec patent licensing landscape. Avanci’s licensing model is…