[M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?

[Tom Barry]

| Moreover, QuickTime has already showed MPEG-4 support working
| at NAB last year, and Real has announced it too.
|

Yes, it may be they have implemented a licensing structure where
everyone is willing to implement support but no one is willing to create
and transmit content.
- Tom
| -----Original Message-----
| From: discuss-admin   lists.m4if.org
| [mailto:discuss-admin   lists.m4if.org]On Behalf Of Rob Koenen
| Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2024 4:54 PM
| To: 'Ben Waggoner'; discuss   lists.m4if.org
| Cc: Sanjay Kulkarni
| Subject: RE: [M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?
|
|
| Ben is exaclty right.
|
| Moreover, QuickTime has already showed MPEG-4 support working
| at NAB last year, and Real has announced it too.
|
| Rob
|
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Ben Waggoner [mailto:ben   interframemedia.com]
| > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2024 9:19
| > To: discuss   lists.m4if.org
| > Cc: Sanjay Kulkarni
| > Subject: Re: [M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?
| >
| >
| > Sanjay,
| >
| >     The critical feature of MPEG-4 is interoperability.
| > Content created by
| > any compliant tool can be served by any compliant server and
| > play back in
| > any compliant player, even if they're all from different
| > vendors (within the
| > same Profile   Level).
| >
| >     Proprietary formats obviously can't offer this.
| >
| >     How important the interoperability is relative to player
| > ubiquity and
| > encoder cost will vary hugely by the industry.
| >
| >     MPEG-4's first big successes are unlikely to be in head to head
| > competition against QuickTime, Windows Media, and
| RealVideo.  MPEG-4's
| > initial wins will be in areas where those technologies
| don't provide a
| > complete solution today.
| >
| >
| > Ben Waggoner
| > Interframe Media <http://www.interframemedia.com>
| > Digital Video Compression Consulting, Training, and Encoding
| >
| >
| >
| > on 2/4/02 10:28 AM, Sanjay Kulkarni at
| > kulkarniS   dvd.panasonic.com wrote:
| >
| > > I would like to use this board to clarify my basic doubt
| > about using the
| > > MPEG-4 format for streaming media.
| > >
| > > I am doing a study to provide streaming media solutions for
| > consumers and am
| > > considering formats like Windows Media, QuickTime, Real and
| > MPEG4. What is
| > > the real advantage of providing an MPEG-4 based streaming
| > media solution?
| > > Quality/bandwidth issues apart, I am of the opinion that
| > licensing would be
| > > the killer to launching this format in the market (again,
| this is a
| > > comparative statement to the rest of the streaming media
| > formats). Not to
| > > mention that the rest of the players are already popular in
| > the market and
| > > their codecs are cheaply (if not freely) available.
| > >
| > > Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks!
| >
| >
| >
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