MPEG Industry Forum

The MPEG-4 Industry Forum signed up Bitmanagement as a new member last week. Bitmanagement has really cool 3D, interactive MPEG-4 technology. Pace Soft Silicon, already a member, joined the interop tests, entering into its 5th round soon. I'll give you the news without further ado.

Kind Regards,

Rob Koenen.

News on MPEG-4

JVC Intros New MPEG-4 codec [PostIndustry, 14 Feb 03] - delivering an ISMA-compliant stream, the DM-NC40U supports unicast and multicast and low delay.
RFMD and Intel announce wireless compatibility [compoundsemiconductor.net, 14 Feb 03] - "The Intel PXA800F cellular processor [...] supports a rich feature set including MP3 and MPEG-4 decode".
New Software Speeds MPEG-4 Optimization and Standards-compliance [3G, 14 Feb 03] - Vprove from Vqual checks MPEG-4 Video encoding compliance.
ATM adopts new work item for MPEG-4 over ATM [Converge!, 06 Feb 03] and Back to the video future for ATM [The Register, 12 Feb 03] - The ATM Forum recently discussed its work plan. "Work to push ahead with standards for the delivery of MPEG-4 streaming media over ATM networks, for the provision of video on demand services, was also pushed forward".
Digital media heads upstream [vnunet, 12 Feb 03] - "Research house Instat/MDR tips Microsoft to dominate the market with the 9 series, with a later challenge from MPEG-4, which will then take the lead."
DMOD WorkSpace adds QuickTime 6 support [MacCentral, 11 Feb 03] - "Version 2.5 provides expanded media format compatibility, including support for QuickTime 6.0, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4."
Researchers scale power barrier at ISSCC [EE Times, 10 Feb 03] - "Aiming at portable 2D/3D graphics and MPEG4 applications, researchers at KAIST (Daejeon, Korea) and Hynix Semiconductor, (Icheon, Korea) have developed a 121mm2 graphics LSI."
ChipWrights optimizes processor for digital cameras [EE Times, 10 Feb 03] - The CW4511 [...] When performing CIF encoding of MPEG-4 streams at 30 fps, the CW4511 typically consumes 300-mW power, ..."
Community Wifi Feeds Community Cable in NYC [Slashdot, 09 Feb 03] - "The project has successfully conducted a test which involved cablecasting an mpeg4 video stream being transported by the nycwireless.net ..."
YML interview videos available [MacCentral, 08 Feb 03] - Your Mac Life has been broadcasting in MPEG-4 for a while now, and now the shows are also available on archive.
MainConcept announces upcoming H.264 [Advanced Video Coding] Codec [MainConcept, 07 Feb 03] - Another one to support Advanced Video Coding (a.k.a. H.264 or MPEG-4 part 10).
OpenIPMP Seeks to Break the DRM Stalemate with Release of Open-Source, ... [Objectlab, 07 Feb 03] - uses ISMA's spec for streaming and MPEG-4 hooks to interface the DRM with the MPEG-4 System. Is integrated with MPEG4IP.
This Box Watches and Learns [PC Magazine, 06 Feb 03] - The Ranger350i from Sequent Technologies is a rugged surveillance device that streams video back to t server in MPEG-4 format.
DVD player uses wireless LAN to play video files [the Enquirer, 06 Feb 03] - Earlier than I expected, a box that includes support for 802.11 and MPEG-4.
Emblaze Semi Samples Multimedia Co-Processor For Handhelds [e-inSITE, 05 Feb 03] - Emblaze's ER4521co-processor supports MPEG-4, H.263+, JPEG, MP3, AAC, and GSM-AMR compression.
Chinese Police Stream Surveillance in MPEG-4 [Streaming Magazine, 05 Feb 03] - Amnis announced deployment of its MPEG-4 systems in Changzhou
Microsoft protecting rights--or Windows? [CNET News, 03 Feb 03] and Will Windows Media 9 Catch On? [osOpinion.com, 04 Feb 03] - Two interesting opinion articles about competition in codec land.
TI, STMicro compete to kick-start mobile data apps [CommsDesign, 03 Feb 03] and ST launches 'Nomadik' multimedia processor for OMAPI terminals [EE Times, 03 Feb 03] - chips for mobile apps.