From rkoenen intertrust.com Mon Nov 5 22:43:43 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:26 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] MPEG-4 Systems Essential Patent Holders Meet to Develop a Joint L icense Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04B5EEA7@exchange.epr.com> Dear M4IF-ers, After the news on Visual and Audio licensing, there is now also news from the Systems side. MPEGLA, through Larry Horn, has released the news below It has been on the M4IF website for a couple of days already. I am passing it on it you because this is important news -- I was happy to receive it. The group has now met two times in short sucession. I hope it will keep such an aggressive schedule, so that licensing can start within a couple of months. The world is looking for licensing to begin in January, with visual, but MPEG-4 can only be deployed if licenses to all of its parts can be obtained. We all eagerly await further news. Kind Regards, Rob -------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Release For Immediate Release CONTACT: Lawrence Horn MPEG LA, LLC 1.301.986.6660 1.301.986.8575 Fax lhorn@mpegla.com MPEG-4 Systems Essential Patent Holders Meet to Develop a Joint License (Denver, Colorado, US - 1 November 2023) - The MPEG-4 Systems Essential Patent Holders Group (M4SystemsPHG) consisting of six essential patent holders met for the first time on September 10, 2001. MPEG LA?, which acts as group facilitator, convened the meeting following an independent patent expert's finding that each of the six companies owns one or more patents essential to the international MPEG-4 Systems Standard. The group's objective is to develop a one-stop license providing fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory worldwide access to this essential intellectual property in order to foster widespread implementation, interoperability and use of this important technology. A second meeting was held October 30, 2001. The M4SystemsPHG's objective is to include as much essential MPEG-4 Systems intellectual property as possible in a one-stop license. Therefore, any party that believes it has patents that are essential to the "MPEG-4 Systems Standard" (ISO/IEC 14496-1 Information technology - Coding of audio-visual objects - Part 1: Systems, including ISO/IEC 14496-1, ISO/IEC 14496-1/Amd.1, ISO/IEC 14496-1/Amd.2 and ISO/IEC 14496-1/COR1)) and wishes to join upon successful evaluation, is invited to submit such patents to the independent Patent Evaluator together with a statement confirming its agreement with the objectives and intention to abide by terms and procedures governing the patent submission process, which may be obtained from Lawrence A. Horn, Vice President, Licensing and Business Development, MPEG LA, LLC (lhorn@mpegla.com, phone 1-301-986-6660, fax 1-301-986-8575). # # # MPEG LA, LLC MPEG LA* successfully pioneered one-stop technology standards licensing, starting with a portfolio of essential patents for the international digital video compression standard known as MPEG-2, which it began licensing in 1997. One-stop technology standards licensing enables widespread technological implementation, interoperability and use of fundamental broad-based technologies covered by many patents owned by many different patent holders. MPEG LA* provides users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to these essential patents on a worldwide basis under a single license. The MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License now has more than 340 licensees and includes almost 400 MPEG-2 essential patents owned by 19 patent holders. As the legal and business template for one-stop technology standards licensing, MPEG LA* also provides an innovative way to achieve fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to patent rights for other technology standards - the high-speed transfer digital interconnect standard known as IEEE 1394 and the terrestrial digital television standard used in Europe and Asia known as DVB-T. In addition, MPEG LA? has been asked to facilitate the development of joint licenses for MPEG-4 and other emerging technologies. The company is based in Denver, CO and has offices in Chevy Chase, MD (Washington DC metropolitan area), the greater San Francisco area and London, England. For more information, please refer to , and . From rkoenen intertrust.com Tue Nov 13 08:47:48 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:26 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BD9C77@exchange.epr.com> MPEG-4 watchers, This week's EE Times has a special issue on MPEG technology. Most of it focuses on MPEG-4, but there is also interesting material on MPEG-7 and even a bit on MPEG-21, including how the standards relate to each other. Visit http://www.m4if.org and look under "MPEG-4 in the News" Things are heating up around MPEG-4. Yesterday alone, the following news items were released: * Vweb Introduces Industry's First MPEG Network CODEC Chip * Sigma Designs Provides First Full Resolution MPEG-4 Decoder; New EM8470 Chips ... * NEC To Offer PacketVideo's Industry-Leading Wireless Streaming Products to Japan ... * Alchemy Semiconductor Demonstrates MPEG-4 Streaming With Media Excel Software * Pace Introduces IPTV Digital Home Gateway for Telecom and Broadband IP Networks * Hutchison Telecom Acquires Luxxon's Mediator Streaming System to Deliver Rich Media ... * iVAST And Sigma Designs Form Partnership to Offer a Set-Top Box Based On MPEG-4 * DivXNetworks and Broadway Television Network Launch Video-on-Demand Service Announced today - will be listed on m4if home page shortly: * KDDI to offer GPS navigation service, deliver MPEG-4 video to cell Phones in December For all of these, go to http://www.m4if.org and look under "Press Releases" Also, in the Hot News Section of http://www.m4if.org under "MPEG-4 and IPMP session of the 143rd SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition [SMPTE, 6 Nov 01]" we are collecting the slides from last week's tutorial session. Best, Rob Koenen From rkoenen intertrust.com Wed Nov 14 10:50:56 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:26 2003 Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BD9D0A@exchange.epr.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: YH [mailto:yh86us@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2023 2:26 > To: technotes@lists.m4if.org > Cc: M4IF news (E-mail) > Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times > > > > * iVAST And Sigma Designs Form Partnership to Offer a Set-Top > > Box Based On MPEG-4 > > Interesting. Will the MPEG-4 be used in DTV and HDTV? I was > heard that the > MPEG-4 won't replace MPEG-2? > And indeed it will not. Look at PACE - just launched an MPEG-2 STB that can also decode MPEG-4. MPEG-2 is for the basic programming, MPEG-4 for additional/enhanced wervices. Quite a good pair I'd say. Rob From JMcClenny sandstream.com Wed Nov 14 13:20:41 2001 From: JMcClenny sandstream.com (McClenny, John Doc) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:26 2003 Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times Message-ID: comments at the end > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Koenen [mailto:rkoenen@intertrust.com] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: YH [mailto:yh86us@yahoo.com] > > > > > * iVAST And Sigma Designs Form Partnership to Offer a Set-Top > > > Box Based On MPEG-4 > > > > Interesting. Will the MPEG-4 be used in DTV and HDTV? I was > > heard that the > > MPEG-4 won't replace MPEG-2? > > > > And indeed it will not. Look at PACE - just launched an MPEG-2 STB > that can also decode MPEG-4. MPEG-2 is for the basic programming, > MPEG-4 for additional/enhanced wervices. MPEG-4 is cheap insurance at this point. The IP STB space is a lot less tied to MPEG-2 than the DBS/broadcast space. 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URL: /pipermail/news/attachments/20011114/dd23a9fc/attachment.html From rkoenen intertrust.com Wed Nov 14 16:13:56 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:26 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing Additional Visual Profiles Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BD9D38@exchange.epr.com> People, The following release marks the start of a process that will enable joint licensing of essential patents in 3 more MPEG-4 Visual Profiles: * Simple Scalable * Advanced Simple * Fine Granular Scalability (FGS) This is in addition to the following Profiles, for which licensing is slated to start in 2 months: * Simple * Core - Advanced Simple, a superset of Simple, has the latest coding effiency tools in MPEG-4, and supports rectangular video objects. - Simple Scalable and FGS are scalable extensions of Simple (Simple is the base layer). FGS can also be used with Advanced Simple as a base layer. - Core is a superset of Simple, adding B frames ('B-VOPs') and arbitrary-shape objects. This is an important milestone towards further deployment of MPEG-4 technology. Kind Regards, Rob Koenen (President M4IF) (I apologize for duplicate mails through multiiple reflectors) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - For Immediate Release CONTACT: Lawrence Horn, MPEG LA, LLC 301.986.6660 301.986.8575 Fax lhorn@mpegla.com MPEG LA? Announces M4IF Plan for Joint Licensing of Essential MPEG-4 Patents (Denver, Colorado, US-14 November 2001) - The MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) has recommended that MPEG LA, LLC make the following worldwide announcement: In furtherance of its plan aimed at providing fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory worldwide access under one license to patents that are essential for implementing the international MPEG-4 Visual Standard, the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) has recommended that MPEG LA, LLC, in its role as Evaluation Administrator, call for the submission of patents for evaluation of their essentiality to additional MPEG-4 Visual Standard profiles, specifically Simple Scalable, Advanced Simple, and Fine Granularity Scalable. The Simple Scalable profile is generally described in ISO/IEC 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and 9-2 (pages 322 and 324). The Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable profiles are generally described in ISO/IEC 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables AMD2-13 and AMD2-14. These latter tables can be found in the ISO document N3904, also styled "ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001/FDAM2" (pages 32-33). Following is a summary of the approved plan: 1. Objective To establish a portfolio of essential worldwide patents that are necessary for implementation of the MPEG-4 Visual (Simple Scalable, Advanced Simple, and Fine Grain Scalability) standard in order to provide all MPEG-4 Visual users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to this technology under one license. 2. Licensed patents Essential patents will consist of those that are necessary for the Simple Scalable (ISO/IEC 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and 9-2 [pages 322 and 324]), Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable (ISO/IEC 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables AMD2-13 and AMD2-14, which can be found in the ISO document N3904, also styled "ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001/FDAM2" [pages 32-33]) profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard. 3. Organization The joint patent portfolio license may require at least three functions: First, an Administrative Committee consisting of representatives of the essential patent owners will meet to consider licensing terms and conditions and monitor certain activities of a Licensing Administrator. Second, the Licensing Administrator, who is granted non-exclusive sublicensing rights from patent owners under licensed patents, actively promotes the licensing program and distributes collected royalties to the patent owners. The Licensing Administrator will be chosen by the initial group of patent holders comprising the Administrative Committee. Third, an Evaluator who is a neutral, third party patent expert will evaluate patents for essentiality to the Simple Scalable (ISO/IEC 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and 9-2 [pages 322 and 324]), Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable (ISO/IEC 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables AMD2-13 and AMD2-14, which can be found in the ISO document N3904, also styled "ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001/FDAM2" [pages 32-33]) profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard. Any party that believes it has essential patents is invited to submit them for evaluation and inclusion. For each patent submitted, an evaluation fee of US $8,500.00 will be paid to MPEG LA, LLC (as below) to cover costs of the patent expert's evaluation. Members of the Administrative Committee will be determined by the results of the patent essentiality evaluation. 4. Licensing details To be determined by the Administrative Committee consisting of representatives of the essential patent owners. 5. Extension of the scope of the licensed patents On M4IF's recommendation and request, MPEG LA? earlier called for the submission of patents for an evaluation of their essentiality to the normative part of the Simple and Core profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard by an independent patent expert, and is currently facilitating the efforts of essential patent owners to develop a joint license providing fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to their essential intellectual property. 6. Schedule (Initial Plan) Initial patent submissions: by March 1, 2024 (although patent submissions may continue to be submitted after that date, owners of essential patents in the initial group of patents submitted by the March 1 date will form the initial group of Licensors and Administrative Committee that will select a Licensing Administrator and determine the terms of license). Evaluation: March - June 2002 Upon the above consensus, M4IF recommended that MPEG LA? make this worldwide announcement. Accordingly, MPEG LA? hereby announces that any company which believes it has patents that are essential to the Simple Scalable, Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard (as described above) and wishes to join the patent pool upon successful evaluation is invited to submit such patents to the Evaluator (identified below) by March 1, 2002, together with a statement confirming its agreement with the objectives and intention to abide by terms and procedures governing the patent submission process. Terms and procedures governing patent submissions may be obtained from Lawrence A. Horn, Vice President, Licensing and Business Development, MPEG LA, LLC (lhorn@mpegla.com, phone 1-301-986-6660, fax 1-301-986-8575). Evaluator: Dr. Kenneth Rubenstein PROSKAUER ROSE LLP 1585 Broadway New York, NY10036-8299 Tel. 212-969-3000 Fax. 212-969-2900 krubenstein@proskauer.com # # # Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC multi-media representation standard developed by its Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). MPEG also developed MPEG-1, which makes possible interactive video on CD-ROM and is present on virtually every personal computer, and MPEG-2, the core compression technology underlying the efficient transmission, storage and display of digitized moving images and sound tracks on which high definition television (HDTV), Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), direct broadcast by satellite (DBS), digital cable television systems, multichannel-multipoint distribution services (MMDS), personal computer video, digital versatile discs (DVD), interactive media and other forms of digital video delivery, storage, transport and display are based. MPEG-4 is the result of yet another international effort involving hundreds of researchers and engineers from all over the world. Building on the successes of MPEG's earlier standards, MPEG-4 enables integration of the production, distribution and content access features of digital television, interactive graphics applications and interactive multimedia across internet protocol, wireless, low bitrate, broadcast, satellite, cable and mobile environments. With MPEG-4, all content elements can be maintained as discrete objects enabling richer interactivity and use across many different devices More information about MPEG-4 can be found at MPEG's home page and at the home page of the MPEG-4 Industry Forum . MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) While M4IF recommended that MPEG LA? take the steps as described in this release, all steps described herein are carried out outside and independently of M4IF. M4IF encourages all and any steps that will lead to easy access to reasonable and non-discriminatory licenses for patents essential to the MPEG-4 Standard. The M4IF was organized on May 29, 2024 as a not-for-profit corporation "To further the adoption and widespread use of the MPEG-4 Standard, by establishing MPEG-4 as an accepted standard among application developers, service providers, content creators and end users." Based in Switzerland, M4IF is open to all parties that support this goal and pay the yearly membership fee of (US) $3,000. M4IF carries on activities outside of ISO/IEC's scope, such as: * Promoting the MPEG-4 Standard, and serving as a single point of information on MPEG-4 technology, products and services; * Initiating discussions leading to the potential establishment of patent portfolios outside of M4IF in order to grant licenses to all applicants throughout the world under reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair competition; * Organization of MPEG-4 exhibitions and tutorials; * Carrying out interoperability tests. Since its official establishment, over 100 companies have joined the Forum. MPEG LA, LLC MPEG LA* successfully pioneered one-stop technology standards licensing, starting with a portfolio of essential patents for the international digital video compression standard known as MPEG-2, which it began licensing in 1997. One-stop technology standards licensing enables widespread technological implementation, interoperability and use of fundamental broad-based technologies covered by many patents owned by many different patent holders. MPEG LA* provides users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to these essential patents on a worldwide basis under a single license. The MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License now has approximately 350 licensees and includes almost 400 MPEG-2 essential patents owned by 19 patent holders. As the legal and business template for one-stop technology standards licensing, MPEG LA* also provides an innovative way to achieve fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to patent rights for other technology standards - the high-speed transfer digital interconnect standard known as IEEE 1394 and the terrestrial digital television standard used in Europe and Asia known as DVB-T. In addition, MPEG LA? has been asked to facilitate the development of joint licenses for MPEG-4 and other emerging technologies. The company is based in Denver, CO and has offices in Chevy Chase, MD (Washington DC metropolitan area), the greater San Francisco area and London, England. For more information, please refer to , and . From olivier.avaro francetelecom.com Thu Nov 15 08:51:54 2001 From: olivier.avaro francetelecom.com (Olivier Avaro) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <002c01c16daa$a0ae9b30$3b436a20@rd.francetelecom.fr> RE: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times MPEG-4 is cheap insurance at this point. The IP STB space is a lot less tied to MPEG-2 than the DBS/broadcast space. If MPEG-4 evolves to a 'better' solution for this market, MPEG-2 could go away. MPEG-4 is not meant technically to replace MPEG-2. Defining a standard for STB is much more than just MPEG-2 or MPEG-4. It requires what e.g. DVB did, which is not done for MPEG-4. Considering all the work done to make MPEG-2 STB work, I doubt that it makes sense to switch to an MPEG-4 only solution. If what we are talking is just Video, I also doubt that MPEG-4 Video gain justifies the investment at high bitrates. What makes sense to me is the extension of base MPEG-2 services with MPEG-4 functionnality (streamed audio, video and graphics). This is what MPEG-4 was meant for in this context and technically it is sound. Kind regards, Olivier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/news/attachments/20011115/fe8a8d47/attachment.html From Klaus.Diepold dynapel.de Thu Nov 15 09:59:30 2001 From: Klaus.Diepold dynapel.de (Klaus Diepold) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times In-Reply-To: <002c01c16daa$a0ae9b30$3b436a20@rd.francetelecom.fr> Message-ID: RE: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE TimesOlivier, that's all very true. However, as we have already experienced during the MPEG standardisation work, there are sometimes arguments that lie outside the technical spectrum. Those "marketing" arguments are sometimes hard to understand or overcome. In essence, there maybe uses of the MPEG-4 technology that neither you nor I have anticipated in the first place. Klaus -----Original Message----- From: technotes-admin@lists.m4if.org [mailto:technotes-admin@lists.m4if.org]On Behalf Of Olivier Avaro Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2023 8:52 AM To: 'McClenny, John Doc'; 'Rob Koenen'; yh86us@yahoo.com; technotes@lists.m4if.org Cc: 'M4IF news (E-mail)' Subject: RE: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times MPEG-4 is cheap insurance at this point. The IP STB space is a lot less tied to MPEG-2 than the DBS/broadcast space. If MPEG-4 evolves to a 'better' solution for this market, MPEG-2 could go away. MPEG-4 is not meant technically to replace MPEG-2. Defining a standard for STB is much more than just MPEG-2 or MPEG-4. It requires what e.g. DVB did, which is not done for MPEG-4. Considering all the work done to make MPEG-2 STB work, I doubt that it makes sense to switch to an MPEG-4 only solution. If what we are talking is just Video, I also doubt that MPEG-4 Video gain justifies the investment at high bitrates. What makes sense to me is the extension of base MPEG-2 services with MPEG-4 functionnality (streamed audio, video and graphics). This is what MPEG-4 was meant for in this context and technically it is sound. Kind regards, Olivier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/news/attachments/20011115/6fff5faa/attachment.html From olivier.avaro rd.francetelecom.com Thu Nov 15 12:22:38 2001 From: olivier.avaro rd.francetelecom.com (AVARO Olivier FTRD/DIH/REN) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Re: [M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative From peterh videospheres.com Thu Nov 15 10:12:16 2001 From: peterh videospheres.com (Peter Haighton) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] New MPEG-4 FAQ Message-ID: Hello Everyone, I have put together a new FAQ on MPEG-4 called the MPEG-4 Users FAQ. This FAQ starts where the MPEG FAQs finish. It contains information on many different topics that are of interest to people trying to understand MPEG-4. The link is http://www.m4if.org/resources/mpeg4userfaq.html I will maintain the list and keep it up to date with the latest frequently asked questions. Peter -- Peter Haighton VideoSpheres Inc. 84 Hines Road Kanata, Ontario Canada, K2K 3G3 Tel: (613) 270-9646 x3022 Fax: (613) 271-9442 email: peterh@VideoSpheres.com See http://www.m4if.org for the latest on MPEG-4 From knkneib knk-mpeg.com Thu Nov 15 10:16:18 2001 From: knkneib knk-mpeg.com (Kristine N. Kneib, Ph.D.) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] News Release: New MPEG-4 Seminar Suite Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011115094736.00a56e70@pop3.norton.antivirus> Dear Colleague: KNK Seminars is pleased to announce our new MPEG-4 seminar suite to be held in January 2002 in Silicon Valley. January 28, 2024 MPEG4 Strategies in 2002 January 29 & 30, 2002 MPEG4 Technologies and Applications Join us for comprehensive descriptions, thorough discussions and extensive analysis. Explore real-world industry issues and decisions that you are now facing in product and service developments. We also are offering two of our other popular seminars January 22 & 23, 2002 MPEG1 & MPEG2 January 24 & 25, 2002 Digital Television Systems For more details and to register, visit our Web site at http://www.knk-mpeg.com or call us at +1-858-459-8058. Best regards, Kristine N. Kneib ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristine N. Kneib, Ph.D. - KNK Seminars & Strategies Making MPEG Work for You! 6333 La Jolla Blvd., Ste. 376 - La Jolla - CA 92037-6622 Tel: 858-459-8058 - Fax: 858-459-3654 www.knk-mpeg.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/news/attachments/20011115/9431a565/attachment.html From rkoenen intertrust.com Mon Nov 19 13:52:11 2001 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] "MPEG-4 is expected to become the Streaming Media Standard within Three Years" Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B04BD9E13@exchange.epr.com> "MPEG-4 is expected to become the Streaming Media Standard within Three Years" writes StreamingMedia.com in their report that was released today. See www.m4if.org for a direct link to the study. I think this is the first comprehensive study of this kind. There may be a few MPEG-4 details to be improved, and it is a bit unfortunate that the description of M4IF's role in the licensing process is not completely accurate, but I believe the report does a very good job in making information about MPEG-4 accessible and there is great value in the tables and surveys, which reflect the opinion of industry about when, where and how MPEG-4 will be deployed. Best, Rob Koenen ps: Fernando Pereira and Paulo Nunes of IST, Lisboa, compiled an overview of all the profile and level information in MPEG-4 Visual, across versions. It is here: http://www.m4if.org/resources/profiles/index.html and it is very helpful. A similar overview on Audio is being prepared and will be posted soon. From dim psytel-research.co.yu Wed Nov 21 11:01:33 2001 From: dim psytel-research.co.yu (Ivan Dimkovic) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:27 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] MPEG-4 Authoring Tool Message-ID: <011401c17273$807b3c10$0100a8c0@hal> Dear M4IF People, I have uploaded developer beta 1 version of our MPEG-4 authoring tool, for interoperability testing with other vendors MPEG-4 solutions and first performance evaluation. Current version works with MPEG4IP player, but it might work with others, too. Audio encoding is limited to 60 seconds, and the software is operational for the 30 days (from the date of installation). If anyone is interested - location is http://www.psytel-research.co.yu/mat.htm Best Regards, ************************************************* Ivan Dimkovic, Technical Manager PsyTEL Research Multimedia Coding Solutions Belgrade Yugoslavia phone: +381 63 264 334 cellular: +381 64 11 40 600 fax: +381 11 32 25 275 email: dim@psytel-research.co.yu www: http://www.psytel-research.co.yu *************************************************