[M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?

[Adam Siegel]

Makes sense that the "Big 3" would support MPEG-4 in their players, at least
to some extent. And once all 3 players support it, won't that force all 3
servers to support it or else be at a competitive disadvantage? But until
this is the case - I project maybe by Q2 '03 - I agree with Ben that there
really does not seem to be much of a point to investing in creating MPEG-4
content for the Web.
Even once MPEG-4 is supported by the leading players and servers, it is
still not clear to me that supporting exclusively MPEG-4 will provide
adequate cost savings or other benefits over supporting a combination of 2-3
of the Big 3, which is the current status quo - maybe sites with really
large amounts of content will save on storage costs, but is this
significant? Sure, it is nicer to not have to make the user choose a format
or try to detect the user's installed players. But are these benefits enough
to justify the decision to move to a new format, buy new servers and
encoders, make the necessary changes to asset management and publishing
systems, etc? Not to mention these licensing issues...Then there will
probably also be inconsistencies in the way the Big 3 support MPEG-4 so we
will be limited to the functionality supported by all. I really want to see
MPEG-4 happen, but I am afraid it will take a few years for the market to be
ready and for MPEG-4 to have a broad impact on the Web.
Adam Siegel
ex-cubed media minds
-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin   lists.m4if.org [mailto:discuss-admin   lists.m4if.org]On
Behalf Of Ben Waggoner
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2024 7:46 PM
To: discuss   lists.m4if.org
Subject: Re: [M4IF Discuss] What is the REAL advantage?
Rob,
    Great point.  I'd expect that a ISMA Profile 1 file would play
unmodified in all three major players by the end of this year.
Ben Waggoner
Interframe Media <http://www.interframemedia.com>
Digital Video Compression Consulting, Training, and Encoding
on 2/5/02 1:53 PM, Rob Koenen at rkoenen   intertrust.com wrote:
> Moreover, QuickTime has already showed MPEG-4 support working
> at NAB last year, and Real has announced it too.

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