MPEG Industry Forum

M4IF is proud to announce its new White Paper on MPEG-4, titled "The landscape of advanced multimedia coding", and released to the general public today. Download and view it today!

M4IF's 11th meeting will be held on Fri 13 and Sat 14 Dec 2023 on Awaji Island, Japan. Agenda and Logistics are here. Members should register now. Non-members wishing to sample a meeting can contact M4IF's Executive Director, Paul Ritchie.

This week, M4IF was pleased to see DivXNetworks joining M4IF's growing Interop Program. DivXNetworks is the program's 35th participant in total, and the 32nd in the 4th round of testing

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Best Regards,

Rob Koenen
President, M4IF

MPEG-4 in the News this Week:

Divio MPEG-4 codec delivers 30 frames/s [EE Times, 06 Nov 02] Divio enables cool, small, solid-state (no tapes!) video cameras with their ASP VIDEO /AAC Audio codec chip
NEC Implements NTT DoCoMo's Streaming Service System on Its Platform [Japancorp.net, 06 Nov 02] Streams MPEG-4 Video to handsets using PacketVideo's pv3 Mobilemedia System
dicas offering MPEG-4 ASP/AAC codec free of charge in November [dicas, 06 Nov 02] Offer lasts until end November. Someone has to start the market - you can't beat the price.
Thirdspace launch new Open Video Server [europemedia.net, 05 Nov 02] Thirdspace OVS version 5.1 includes ISO MPEG-4 support.
RealNetworks signs wireless deal [CNET, 05 Nov 02] ... with Envivio, to develop a product that takes any format and translates in into MPEG-4, to be used on handhelds
Chipmakers vie to influence PDA market [ebn, 05 Nov 02] and NeoMagic tailors mobile platform for multimedia [EE Times, 01 Nov 02] with news on Neomagic's new processing architecture that supports MPEG-4
3G Chipset Heads for the Handsets [Electronic Business, 01 Nov 02] Qualcomm's new chipset decodes MPEG-4 streaming video
Siemens shows U10 UMTS phone [InfoSync, 01 Nov 02] This cool phone support MPEG-4: Video and AAC Audio
[review] Archos Jukebox Multimedia 20 [VNUnet, 01 Nov 02] plays back MPEG-4 video
Equator, Reality Commerce Corp. Announce D1 MPEG-4 Encoder on Equator's Tetra™ [Equator, 07 Nov 02] Does real-time encoding at full D1 resolution, Simple Profile @ Level 3

MPEG-4 Press Releases this week

Pre-CES Storage Visions 2003 Conference Publishes Agenda [StorageVisions, 07 Nov 02]
AMPHION Delivers Low-Power MPEG-4 Encoder Cores for Digital Video Silicon [Amphion, 07 Nov 02]
Vweb Launching World's First MPEG-1,2&4 Audio/Video/System Encoder and CODEC Chips [Vweb, 06 Nov 02]
MontaVista Software Powers Industry-Leading MPEG-4 Set-Top Box [MontaVista, 06 Nov 02]
TI Ships New TMS320C6411 DSP Offering Industry's Most MMACS Per Dollar and Per Watt [TI, 06 Nov 02]
ACD Systems, DivXNetworks To Bring User-Friendly Video Editing To Consumers [DivXNetworks, 06 Nov 02]
Envivio Opcion Cable to Develop and Distribute MPEG-4 "Triple Play" Solution to Cable ... [envivio, 05 Nov 02]
RealNetworks and Envivio to Develop Multimedia Encoder for Mobile Markets [Envivio, 05 Nov 02]
Sand Video Enters Video Compression Market with Next Gen H.264 Codec Technology... [Sand Video, 04 Nov 02]
Philips, Nokia and Cellcom team to showcase live content streaming via UMTS [Philips, 04 Nov 02]
QUALCOMM Announces Production Shipment of World's First radioOne 3G CDMA2000... [Qualcomm, 01 Nov 02]

Upcoming Events

12-13 Nov 02 Mobile Imaging & Video, London, UK - MPEG-4 in the mobile arena - 10% M4IF member discount

03-05 Dec 02 Streaming Media Europe - Special MPEG-4 sessions and 10% M4IF member discount

03-06 Dec 02 BroadbandPlus, Anaheim, US - Attention to MPEG-4 at the renewed Cable Western show; 10% M4IF member discount

13-14 Dec 02 M4IF Meeting Awaji Island Japan - Register now!!!

07-08 Jan 03 Storage Visions, Las Vegas, US - What is MPEG-4's role in the home media hubs? Find out at Storage Visions. Discount for M4IF members applies .

27-31 Jan 03 MPEG-4 Seminar Series by KNK Seminars

30 Jan - 01 Feb 03 NY Digital Video Show - with MPEG-4 session including showcase. 20% discount for M4IF members.

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