[M4IF Technotes] Complete list of Profiles anywhere

[Rob Koenen]

The new MPEG-4 Overview is on its way.
I recently did a book article with an overview of
all of the profiles, so I have something to reuse.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Sullivan [mailto:garysull   microsoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2023 2:10 PM
> To: Ben Waggoner; technotes   lists.m4if.org
> Subject: RE: [M4IF Technotes] Complete list of Profiles anywhere
> 
> 
> 
> Ben et al,
> 
> That MPEG-4 Overview is a little out of date.  I'm pretty sure we
> produced an improved one in Singapore, but I guess the new one hasn't
> made it to that web site yet.  In particular the old one lists some
> things in section 4.1 that have been finished for a while.  The latest
> video profiles and levels that were finalized and approved 
> earlier this
> year include the Studio profile, the Fine Granularity Scalability
> profile, the Advanced Simple Profile, and Level 0 of the 
> Simple profile.
> (At least those are the ones I recall off the top of my head.)
> 
> Yes, new work is in progress for the future.  See
> the press release of the Sydney meeting:
> http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/sydney/sydney_press.htm.
> There are three areas of new work that come to my mind:
> 1) A new video coding project for improved compression quality
>    that may be developed jointly with ITU-T
> 2) Digital Cinema work, starting initially with comparisons to the
>    MPEG-4 Studio Profile
> 3) A new amendment to MPEG-4 visual adding some relatively small new
> features
>    (new levels of existing profiles and an alpha channel for VTC).
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Gary Sullivan
> 
> +> -----Original Message-----
> +> From: Ben Waggoner [mailto:ben   interframemedia.com] 
> +> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2023 1:39 PM
> +> To: 'technotes   lists.m4if.org'
> +> Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Complete list of Profiles anywhere
> +> 
> +> 
> +> Hello,
> +> 
> +>     Is there a more updated list of MPEG-4 profiles than 
> that in the
> +> overview document at:
> +> 
> http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm
> 
>     I know some others have been considered for digital 
> cinema or such.
> Any
> of them approved, or close to it?  Listed anywhere?
> 
> Ben Waggoner
> Interframe Media <http://www.interframemedia.com>
> Digital Video Compression Consulting, Training, and Encoding
> 
> 
> 
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