R: [Mp4-tech] advance multimedia with mpeg-4 - The great risk ...

[igino manfre']

Hi Sven,
I suffer of a nightmare that -- for many aspects -- may come from questions
similar to yours.
Today broadcasting is going toward MPEG-4 (better H264, but wasn't it also
called "part 10"?): SetTopBoxes to dress the DVB logo are requested to be
high profile compliant if HighDefinition and main profile compliant if
StandardDefinition video.
The main manufacturer of compression hardware have abandoned the MPEG-2
production preferring to invest their money in H264.
Ok a single square object is sufficient, simpler and maybe better. But we
all know that H264 is not alone. "Something" surround it. We all know that
the remaining 90% of that damned 14496 standard (killed in 2002 by MPEG-LA
with that terrible licensing scheme, almost aborted) is related to
interactivity. It could linearly applied to broadcasting but it seem not to
be...
We're all are going to see (maybe to buy) SetTopBoxes able to reproduce H264
riding DVB-S2 transport sided by MHP.
Yes all the work on objects and scenes seems to be ignored.
What MHP does in this case ? Not known. A generic interest, but since
interactivity may come after (like love in he marriages), the systems on
chips expected for december will include "only" h264 Frext player, but no
word about management of MPEG-4 and xmt wrappers.
STBs manufacturers deal with consumer products. They push what the market
analysers forecast for the near future (hopefully for today). DVB and MHP
could do a lot of things about, but they seems not aware of this.
This -- unlucky -- is not only a nightmare: it is any day passing more and
more what we are going to implement.
Bye,
Igino
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[mailto:mp4-tech-bounces lists.mpegif.org]Per conto di Sven Wontroba
Inviato: mercoledi 9 novembre 2005 13:34
A: mp4-tech lists.mpegif.org; mpeg4 lists.infotoday.com
Oggetto: [Mp4-tech] advance multimedia with mpeg-4
Hello experts
For a while now I am researching the area of multimedia in mobile
devices and set top boxed for my end project at my university. So I
found different IST - EU research project using advanced MPEG-4
functionality like BIFS, advanced video coding for scaleability,...
Something I'm wondering about it, I see during the last years an
upcoming trend in the use of MPEG-4 video, but in real world product
(not research project) just the use of "basic" and in some new products
avc video. I know there is the GPAC project which also seems to be
used in many research projects. But I haven't seen any commercial
product out there using this advanced features in any device.
One point I see so far is, up till now you have to create xlets and
midlets and program the multimedia part if you want to be able to play
multimedia content with the existing products and create you own
parser. I don't know you can just download a module which is able to
interpret BIFS,... information over dvb or Internet? Or would it be a
program like a player you have to install on the machine in advance or
is installed already on the STB, mobile?
I haven't seen them in real world product. Or I might not be aware of
the product. So if you are aware of them please send me some
information. Additional comments are also appreciated.
I'll send this to different lists, hopefully to get some comments so I
apologize if some of you will receive this 2 times.
Thanks in advance Sven
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