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What is the MPEG Industry Forum?
The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal:
"To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users."
The Forum used to be known as the MPEG-4 Industry Forum, or M4IF. On 27 June 2003, during its Annual Member Meeting, M4IF adopted a resolution to transform itself into the MPEG Industry Forum. This followed and ongoing discussion with people from the MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 communities and the wish expressed by M4IF’s membership, at the previous annual meeting in June 2002, to work towards a single Forum working on the adoption of all new MPEG standards. Many companies in MPEG and MPEGIF have interests that run across the different MPEG standards, and they see the synergies of using them together. Putting MPEG-4 content in an MPEG-2 Transport Stream, using MPEG-7 metadata describing MPEG-4 files and employing MPEG-21 style ‘Digital Item Declarations’ of MPEG-4 encoded play lists and repositories are just a few examples.
The MPEG Industry Forum provides a platform for those who want to address the adoption of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21. ALso for 2004/2005, MPEGIF has been able to keep our membership fees unchanged, regardless of how many MPEG standards a member is interested in: 3,000 USD for Principal (Full) membership, and 300 USD for associate membership. The latter type of membership is open to not-for-profit organizations and will shortly be opened for individuals that want actively to support MPEGIF's goals.
MPEG-4 is still the focus of a large part of the Forum's membership, and the Forum still uses the m4if.org website and MP4 logo for its MPEG-4 activities. These activities include the adoption of the new Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) standards.
Information on joining the MPEG Industry Forum is here. (These pages will be updated to reflect the changes shortly)
A press release on the new scope of the MPEG Industry Forum was issued on 8 July 2023 - it can be found here.
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