As we have covered regularly, the video codec market is divided between several different standards and also several different patent pools, which creates considerable confusion about royalties, and about the consequent costs for makers of video devices – an increasing number of them mobile. With the recent confirmation of the VVC (Versatile Video Coding) royalty terms for the two patent pools Access Advance and MPEG LA, it is worth exploring the impact of these fees on the device market. It appears, based on volume pricing, that Sisvel’s AV1 is cheaper than AVC at small volumes for OEMs, and that Velos Media – the third HEVC licensing group – is wildly distorting the MPEG market. As the example scenario, our analyst…