From rkoenen intertrust.com Wed Dec 5 08:05:50 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] Recent MPEG-4 news Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04EB8B57@exchange.epr.com> Some recent news, soon available from www.m4if.org Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Philips Showcases Advanced MPEG-4 Authoring Solution At Internet World Wireless 2001 [Businesswire, 3 Dec 01] http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.120301/213371009&ticke r=PHG PacketVideo Participates in Industry's First Open Forum for Wireless Multimedia Interoperability Testing http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.120301/213370779 [Businesswire, 3 Dec 01] Leading Wireless Multimedia Companies Complete World's First Open Interoperability Testing [Businesswire, 3 Dec 01] http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.120301/213370272&ticke r=PME MPEG-4 Multimedia Content Going Mobile With Philips At Internet World Wireless 2001 [Businesswire, 3 Dec 01] http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.120301/213371010&ticke r=PHG Dolby Laboratories Demonstrates New AAC Consumer Encoder http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.113001/213342087 From rkoenen intertrust.com Mon Dec 10 09:38:38 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] Hot News: Real will supports MPEG-4 Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BD9FBA@exchange.epr.com> MPEG-4 followers, A major step forward in getting widespread adoption of MPEG-4 was announced today as RealNetworks moves toward supporting MPEG-4. That support is here today through plug-ins supplied by Envivio, a company with many longtime MPEG-4 experts. Here is RealNetowrk's announcement: http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2001/mpeg4.html Industry-Leading RealSystem Adds Support for MPEG-4 And here is Envivio's announcement: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-10 -2001/0001630171&EDATE= Envivio Announces MPEG-4 Support for RealNetworks RealSystem; Envivio Delivers MPEG-4 Plug-in for RealSystem Server and RealOne Player Best Regards, Rob Koenen President, M4IF +1 408 855 6891 From rkoenen intertrust.com Thu Dec 13 11:53:53 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] 58th meeting MPEG Press Release Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BDA081@exchange.epr.com> MPEG STARTS DEVELOPMENT OF RIGHTS LANGUAGE, APPROVES JOINT VIDEO TEAM WITH ITU EXPERTS TO SET NEW VIDEO CODING STANDARD Pattaya, Thailand, December 7, 2001. At its 58th meeting, from 2-7 December 2001, MPEG reviewed 9 responses to its Call for Proposals on a Rights Data Dictionary and Rights Expression Language (RDD-REL) issued in July. This marks the beginning of the collaborative phase of this very important work, which is scheduled for International Standard in March 2003. The Rights Data Dictionary work will proceed from this meeting forward. In so-called 'core experiments', MPEG will refine the baseline architecture and the content of the Rights Expression Language to satisfy the extensive requirements for rights expression in a multimedia framework. A working draft of the RDD specification is available on the MPEG web site, and the REL working draft will be available shortly. The RDD and REL specifications will allow interoperable large-scale exchange of digital media, including subscription services, trusted peer-to-peer services and a wide variety of other distribution models. The specifications are part of the MPEG-21 effort to specify a comprehensive, interoperable multimedia framework, which started in 1999. Other elements include a technical report also just finalized and soon to be published. Other work includes the 'Digital Item Declaration' and the Digital Item Identification & Description, and an interoperable architecture for Intellectual Property Management and Protection. A historic joint partnership was established between ISO/IEC and the ITU at the Pattaya ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG meetings with the formation of a new Joint Video Team (JVT). This action reunites the powerful team of the same two organizations that designed the previous MPEG-2 video and systems standards (also known as ISO/IEC 13818, and ITU-T H.262 and H.222.0). The formation of the JVT follows the demonstration of significant advances in video compression technology by the VCEG H.26L project in tests conducted by MPEG just prior to its July meeting. The JVT project will take over the prior H.26L project of the ITU-T and will create a single interoperable solution for a next generation of standard video coding. The new standard design is expected to be approved by MPEG as a new part of MPEG-4 and by ITU-T as an ITU-T Recommendation. A key achievement expected from the JVT project is a substantial improvement in video coding efficiency for a broad range of application areas. Other MPEG News MPEG issued a Preliminary Call for Proposals for Digital Item Adaptation. This new element of MPEG?21 set will be a specification for tools that will allow adaptation of multimedia content to the environment in which it will be 'consumed' (e.g., read, watched, listened to). MPEG expects to standardize tools for describing the terminal, the network and user preferences. Many descriptive tools already exist in well-defined application spaces, and MPEG anticipates adopting those as a part of the specification. A final Call will be issued in March, and responses are invited for the May MPEG meeting in Fairfax, VA (US). The combination of content descriptions (in MPEG-7) and environment descriptions (in MPEG-21) will allow seamless, optimized delivery of content under many different and dynamically changing conditions. The work on more interoperable IPMP (Intellectual Property Management and Protection) continued with a mapping to MPEG-2. This specification, an extension to the MPEG-2 Systems standard, is meant for usage in digital set top boxes and the increasingly popular 'personal video recorders'. It will provide interoperable digital rights management in the broadcast space, where MPEG-2 is widely in use. After completing Version 1 of the multimedia description framework MPEG-7 at its last (July) meeting, work has now begun on a second version. This extension to version will, among other elements, include a scheme for linguistic descriptions. Such a description scheme allows the formal description of the linguistic aspects of multimedia content - in other words, it allows a formal description of, e.g., the speech in a film. Such a description scheme can be included in a more comprehensive audiovisual description. The MPEG committee has completed its standard for the carriage of MPEG-4 over IP-based networks - the Internet. In principle, MPEG-4 does not define a native transport multiplex like MPEG-2 did. This standard recognizes the pervasive nature of the Internet and the need for transporting MPEG-4 content over IP in a well-defined, interoperable fashion. The work was done in collaboration with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Future MPEG meetings are as follows: 59th meeting: 11-15 March 2002 (Jeju, South Korea), 60th meeting: 6?10 May 2002 (Fairfax, VA, US), 61st meeting: 22-26 July 2002 (Klagenfurt, Austria). For further information about MPEG, please contact: Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, (Convenor of MPEG, Italy) CSELT Via G. Reiss Romoli, 274 10148 Torino, ITALY Tel.: +39 11 228 6120; Fax: +39 11 228 6299 Email: leonardo.chiariglione@cselt.it or Rob Koenen (Chairman MPEG Requirements Group) InterTrust Technologies Corporation Tel +1 (408) 855 6891 Email: rob.koenen@ieee.org This press release and much other MPEG-related information can be found on the MPEG homepage: http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com For the Outstanding Call for Proposals, see the Hot News section, http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/hot_news.htm The MPEG homepage has links to other MPEG pages, which are maintained by some of the subgroups. It also contains links to public documents that are freely available for download to non-MPEG members. Journalists and other people that wish to receive MPEG Press Releases by email can contact Rob Koenen. From rkoenen intertrust.com Thu Dec 13 13:57:22 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:28 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] MPEG-4 Visual 2001 edition available from ISO Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BDA090@exchange.epr.com> MPEG-4 Visual 2001 edition is now available from ISO. See www.m4if.org for a link to ISO's website. This edition bundles what is known as version 1, version 2 and corrigenda. Studio Profile and the Streaming Video Profiles (Advanced Simple and Fine Granular Scalability) are NOT in this version. The streaming video profile can be bought in FDIS version from ISO, send mail to mailto:sales@iso.ch The FDIS is word-for-word the same as the final International Standard the ISO will publish in a couple of weeks. On another note, Forrester published a brief on MPEG-4 today, available for subscribers to their research service. http://www.forrester.com/ER/Research/Brief/0,1317,14073,00.html The basic message (quoting the summary) " RealNetworks' support of MPEG-4 signals growing industry support for the new multimedia standard. But MPEG-4 adoption is a long-term process -- there will be little MPEG-4 Internet streaming in the next three years. " While I agree with the Brief's basic analysis of the strenghts and usages of MPEG-4, I think hat recent developments wshow that 3 years is way too pessimistic. Once the licensing issues are settled - and I still count on licensing for MPEG-4 Visual to commence in January, many products will be released. Best, Rob Koenen From rkoenen intertrust.com Thu Dec 13 15:57:02 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:28 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] M4IF meeting 15,16 January Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BDA09D@exchange.epr.com> M4IF will hold its 8th meeting in Bareclona, Spain, on 15 and 16 January. This is a members-only meeting. Below is the meeting announcement for: - members that Rob Koenen Senior Director of Technology Initiatives InterTrust Technologies Corporation tel +1 (408) 855 6891 gsm +1 (408) 823 7512 fax +1 (408) 855 0250 4750 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA rob@intertrust.com ____________________________________________ http://www.m4if.org has the latest on MPEG-4 From rkoenen intertrust.com Thu Dec 13 16:12:39 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:28 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] M4IF meeting 15,16 January Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BDA09F@exchange.epr.com> M4IF News listers, The MPEG-4 Industry Forum will hold its 8th meeting in Bareclona, Spain, on 15 and 16 January. > Below is the meeting announcement for: > - members that are not on the members mailing list - parties that consider joining, and want to use the option of attending one M4IF meeting as an observer. Apart from the one-time observers, this is a members-only meeting. If you want to participate as an observer, please contact Lynne Apodaca, http://www.m4if.org/contact.html for details. The main discussion items will be: * our interoperability efforts * marketing of MPEG-4 and M4IF * certification programs for MPEG-4 products * reports on progress in licensing of MPG-4 technology * liaisons, notably MPEG, and cooperation with ISMA * some administrative matters Kind Regards, Rob Koenen President, M4IF (ps apologies for the last, incomplete mail ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- MPEG-4 Industry Forum - 8th Meeting 15-16 January 2002 Barcelona, Spain This is a reminder that the 8th MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) Meeting will be held 15-16 January 2002 in Barcelona Spain. On-line registration is available for your convenience at . If you have not already done so, please register and make your travel arrangements today! Read below for logistical details. MEETING LOCATION: Catalonia Barcelona Plaza Hotel Plaza Espa?a, 6-8; 08014 Barcelona, Spain Tel: +34 93 426 26 00 Fax: +34 93 426 04 00 HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Rate: The hotel guest room rate is 108 Euro (approximately 97 USD) for single and 135 Euro (approximately 120 USD) for double occupancy per night plus 7% VAT. To make reservations, use the attached fax reservation form and send to +34 93 426 04 00 or e-mail it to plaza.reservas@hoteles-catalonia.es. A confirmation will be sent to you via fax. The hotel accepts all major credit cards. Check-in time is 3:00 PM, and checkout is 12:00 PM. The cutoff date for the room block is 2 January 2002. The special room rate is not guaranteed after this time and reservations will be granted based on availability if requested after 2 January 2002. SCHEDULE: Tuesday 15 January: * Interoperability Working Group Meeting; 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM * Marketing Working Group Meeting; 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM * Welcome Reception for all M4IF Members; 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Lunch will not be provided on Tuesday. Wednesday 16 January: * Member Meeting; 9:00 AM-6:00 PM On Wednesday, continental breakfast will be served at 8:00 AM and lunch will be served at 12:00 PM. MEETING FEE: As is standard practice with the M4IF, attendees to M4IF meetings will pay a fee to cover the costs of the meeting. The fee for the 8th Meeting is 100.00 USD. This amount can be paid by credit card or check in U.S. currency. PLEASE NOTE: cash will not be accepted. A receipt will be issued at the meeting. MEETING REGISTRATION: To confirm meeting attendance, fill out the online registration form . Meeting registration does not secure you a hotel room. Please complete one registration form for each individual attending from your company by 2 January 2002. In order for us to provide comfortable accommodations for everyone, it is crucial that everyone register in advance. We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona in January. If you have any questions, please contact me directly at +1 925 275 6671 or jkling@inventures.com Regards, Jennifer ___________________________________________________ Jennifer D. Kling Events Manager Global Inventures/MPEG-4 Industry Forum 2694 Bishop Drive, Suite 275 San Ramon, CA 94583 Tel: +1 925 275 6671 Fax: +1 925 275 6691 Cell: +1 925 699 9753 From rkoenen intertrust.com Wed Dec 19 12:39:46 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:28 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] Become an MPEG-4 expert in 6 hours Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BDA1C2@exchange.epr.com> People, Become an MPEG-4 expert in 6 hours! Everything you always wanted to know about MPEG-4, but were afraid to ask - now is your chance to get up to speed and ask questions to the experts. In a cooperation between M4IF and Streamingmedia.com, M4IF will do a series of webcasts on MPEG-4 topics. The series will start January 8th, and will run for 6 consecutive Tuesdays. These webcasts will be done with *THE* experts desigend MPEG-4 and wrote the standard. These people will cover relevant topics in-depth, each for a full hour: * Systems * Visual * Audio * Conformance/Interoperability/Profiles, * Authoring/eXtensible MPEG-4 Textual format (XMT) * Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP) now and in the future Tune in -- or call in with questions. If you are in the wrong timezone, you can retrieve the session later. Each of these sessions starts at: 2:00 Japan, Korea (Wednesday AM - 1 day later than the announced dates) 4:00 Sydney (also Wednesday AM) 9:00 PST - US Westcoast (Tuesday AM) 12:00 EST - US Eastcoast (Tuesday noon) 17:00 GMT - UK, Portugal (Tuesday PM) 18:00 CET - Most of Europe (Tuesday PM) 19:00 Finland, Israel (Tuesday PM) See http://www.m4if.org/streaming/index.html for details and links. Best Regards, Rob Koenen President, MPEG-4 Industry Forum ps: I apologize for the unfortunate time for the Pacific Rim; streamingmedia.com is a US westcoast-based company and picking a time that works for all time zones is impossible. We will try to find a more friendly time for you on a next ocassion. You will still be able to listen to the broadcasts after they have occured; we will publish the links.