[M4IF News] 4th Webcast - Conformance and Interoperability - in a few hours!

[Rob Koenen]

All,
the fourth of six webcasts on MPEG-4 technologies "Become an 
MPEG-4 Expert in 6 hours" will be broadcast in a few hours. 
The topic of this one-hour show is Conformance and Interoperability,
adressing Conformance Testing, Profiles, Levels, Interoperability
Testing - how to do it, where to do it and where to get the tools.
You can listen on the Web, or call in with questions.
Times: 
	17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET, 
	9:00 PST, 12:00 EST, 
	01:00 China, 02:00 Tokyo, Seoul (sorry)
	04:00 Sydney
The webcast is a cooperation between Streamingmedia, Inc. and 
the MPEG-4 Industry Forum, M4IF.
Experts on the webcast are this time:
* Jean-Claude Dufourd of ENST in France, editor of the MPEG-4 
  Conformance spec
* Fernando Pereira of IST in Portugal, expert on Profiles and Levels
* Ralph Neff from PacketVideo in CA, USA, expert on interoperability
  testing in multiple forums
* Rob Koenen, chair MPEG Requirements Group which oversees the 
  definition of Profiles and Levels.
Please find information here http://www.m4if.org/streaming/index.html
and here http://www.streamingmedia.com/talk/view.asp?id=302&ref=m4if
Generic info about the series is here: 
http://www.streamingmedia.com/talk/mpeg4.asp&ref=m4if
The discussion will address:
* What is interoperability in MPEG-4?
* What are interoperability points?
	- Profiles: the tools
	- Levels: the complexity
* What is being done in interop testing?
	- in M4IF and outside
* What is Conformance?
	- what does MPEG do in terms of conformance
		- dowload the bitstreams!
* Certification of Products in M4IF 
and more!
Kind Regards,
Rob Koenen