[Mp4-tech] Query for suggestions on student project about MPEG-4 transport

[Andreas Åkre Solberg]

Hi, this is my first posting to this forum. I am a student of Norwegian 
University of Technology and Science. Master of Technology study on 
Telematics. I recently decided to write a project and thesis on MPEG-4 
transport. The first part (25% year) should be some system study, some 
design, some implementation. And after christmas I will have a (thesis) 
project (50% year). Both project and thesis will result in a report 
which will be evaluated. About 25% of the working time should be left 
for writing the report.
So to the point. I have not exactly formulated the project yet, and I 
have to pretty fast. Since I am pretty new to MPEG and video in 
general, it is difficult for me to formulate a good project until after 
the system study. Therefore I ask you   MPEG-4-gurus to help me out 
with suggestions of what to write about and play with :)
The framework of the project is to write about MPEG-4 transport. More 
specific, I want to write about convergence between video-transport on 
IP-networks and on TV broadcast systems. I guess interesting topics 
within these frames would be how to convert MPEG4 over IP to MPEG4 over 
MPEG2-TransportStreams. Do you think this would be a interesting 
project? Does such conversion tools already exists? If not is it easy 
or very hard to make? What main issues are to be solved within this 
conversion.
I am not yet sure whether to angle the project against theoretical 
analysis, implementation work or practical experience with existing 
equipment and basic system understandning.
Since I have a lot of resources availabale - playing with expensive 
video equipment sounds most fun :D
I have some resources avaiable at the university.
- Cardinal Playout system (I think)
- Antenna, sending equipment, modulators.
- License to broadcast airbourne? signals
- Set top box, I am not sure which model and so..
- Gigabit IP-networks.
I have bought a MPEG-4 book called "the MPEG-4 Book". I guess I will 
need abit more literature on video transport. Specially MPEG-2 
transport stream. And perhaps something more on MPEG4 over MPEG2-TS and 
IP. Any book-recommendations?
I am looking forwarding to contributions,
thanks in advance.
Andreas
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