[M4IF Technotes] RE: Beware

[Brian Dipert]

Followup; after visting Stephan's site at
http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stewe/vceg/, I may be confused, but I still
think not. If you visit www.vqeg.org (mirrored at http://media.xiph.org)
you'll find that the sequences you compressed AREN'T there. The VQEG
sequences are D1 (both PAL and NTSC) resolution and have file names of style
srcXX_ref__X25.yuv....I also used these in my project, and they're public.
Based on the names and resolutions of your files, I think they're actually
MPEG-4 standards committee material, which as I mention below is NOT public.
I've copied Stephan on this email and perhaps he can clarify
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Dipert [mailto:bdipert   pacbell.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2023 6:24 PM
> To: singer   apple.com
> Cc: Rob Koenen; technotes   lists.m4if.org
> Subject: Beware
>
>
> Umm...David. I also used the University of Hannover/MPEG-4 test
> sequences in my video compression hands-on project, due to go
> live Thursday morning at www.edn.com (any and all feedback
> welcomed). Leonardo Chiariglione (yes, THAT Leonardo) from the
> MPEG standards group was VERY emphatic (Rob'll back me up on
> this) that I NOT post either the original YUVs or any lossless-
> or even lossy-compressed variants of them to a public website,
> since (as you point out on your
> http://index.apple.com/~singer/sequences/testseq.html website)
> they're copyright-protected. Note that the area of the Hannover
> FTP site where the originals reside is password-protected; only
> for use by MPEG members. Just thought I'd let you know that an
> angry Italian may soon be headed your way. Conversely, if you
> secure permission rights......please let me know, as I'd like to
> post my stuff too!
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> Brian Dipert
> Technical Editor: Mass Storage, Memory, Multimedia, PC Core Logic
> and Peripherals, and Programmable Logic
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