Saturday, March 15, 2024 08:18 PST - MPEG-4 News Digest weeks 8-11, 2003

MPEG-4 News Readers,

It's been too long since the previous news digest, especially since there is so much news. The MPEG meeting and its preparations have kept the schedule pretty full ...

The good news form the MPEG meeting, which is about to end in half an hour or so, is that the text of new AVC | H.264 video codec standard is now approved. The same applies to the spectacular "High Efficiency AAC" profile. Meantime, the number of MPEG-4 CE devices is growing by the day.

M4IF is happy to welcome Kawasaki Microelectronics as its newest member.

Check out the Digital Media Summit, held on 26 and 27 March in LA.

M4IF is getting ready for NAB, where we will be present with a booth and, together with SMPTE, will organize the MPEG - Enabling Broadcast and Media Convergence broadcast engineering conference on the afternoon of April 7th. Lastly  M4IF will be co-sponsor the Multimedia World reception, together with M4IF member IBM. (For our membership: there is room for one more company at NAB's booth! This is a great opportunity to be part of M4IF's significant NAB presence, which also includes a Press Breakfast.)

This year's  BroadcastAsia 2003 trade conference, from 17-20 June 2003 in Singapore, will include an MPEG-4 miniconference. Companies that are already on the program are Envivio, iVast, Harmonic and Nextreaming. You can still take part -- we are particularly interested in real world case studies of MPEG-4 in a broadcast context, and will welcome these from members and non-members alike. Contact Martin Jacklin for more information: [email protected].

I have to do the news without comments this time - it's simply too much. It's good to see that the amount of news though.

Best Regards,

Rob Koenen

News on MPEG-4

• Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux [Linux Journal, 13 Mar 03]
• Media2Go team gets Creative [CNET News, 13 Mar 03]
• Who's song will Apple sing? [SunSpot., 13 Mar 03]
• BenQ Sends Video from Your PC to Your TV [PCWorld, 12 Mar 03]
• Heinrich Hertz Institute develops 3-D video-conference system [Europemedia, 12 Mar 03]
• DVB-X spec to deliver TV on cell phones [EE Times, 12 Mar 03]
• Pre-CeBIT Exclusive: Nero Digital MPEG-4 AV-codec, Nero ShowTime! [AfterDawn, 11 Mar 03]
• Software makers vie to dominate multimedia's use in mobile devices [The Seattle Times, 10 Mar 03]
• TI takes aim at MPEG-4 for digital cameras [ebn online, 10 Mar 03]
• Mio 8380 Smartphone Includes Digital Camera [Brighthand, 08 Mar 03]
• BenQ to ship iPod-like, movie-playing phone [CNETAsia, 07 Mar 03]
• Music Labels Set to Bite the Apple [InternetNews.com, 06 Mar 03]
• A Real Hollywood Horror Story [BusinessWeek Online, 06 Mar 03]
• Sony Ericsson Unveils Multimedia-enabled Mobile Phone Products [e-inSITE, 05 Mar 03]
• TI video processor provides VGA resolution [EE Times, 05 Mar 03]
• Apple to introduce Mac-only music service, MPEG-4 AAC support for iPod [PlaybackTime, 04 Mar 03]
• Portable Combo Device Does It All [PC World, 04 Mar 03]
• ST's Pocket Multimedia platform resurrected as MEDEA+ project [EE Times, 03 Mar 03]
• MPEG-4 Tapeless Digital Camcorder introduces with 30 frames/sec, TV quality [Streaming Magazine, 03 Mar 03]
• MovieWorks 6.0 adds support for importing MPEG-2, MPEG-4, more [MacCentral, 28 Feb 03]
• Digital Camera Makers Try To Stand Out In A Crowded Field [News 14 Carolina, 27 Feb 03]
• Toshiba handset brings video messaging to China [PMN, 27 Feb 03]
• Cisco Bolsters Content Delivery [eWeek, 26 Feb 03]
• Siemens delivers streaming video solution to Westel Mobile [Europemedia, 26 Feb 03]
• Neo-Magic unveils chip that uses less power [Business Standard, 26 Feb 03]
• European AES Convention Program Set [UE Media, 25 Feb 03]
• Audio and Video to Pioneer Multimedia Home Network Market [Streaming Magazine, 24 Feb 03]
• RealNetworks and Ericsson Sign Global Agreement for Mobile Media Solutions [EContent, 21 Feb 03]
• Intel upgrades Integrated Performance Primitives library [LinuxDevices, 20 Feb 03]
• AXELedge expands support for Flash, QT formats [MacCentral, 20 Feb 03]
• Hong Kong's CSL and Nokia to provide streaming mobile video services [CMPnetAsia, 20 Feb 03]
• More Mobile Media and a Look at iMovie 3 [ConnectedHomeOnline, 19 Feb 03]
• Blazing Handhelds - An Interview With Emblaze Semi's [e-inSITE, 19 Feb 03]
• A Software-Defined Radio Baseband Processor for Handhelds [e-inSITE, 19 Feb 03]
• Apple pushing for MPEG-4 copy protection [MacUser, 19 Feb 03]
• Microsoft Rivals Line Up for Mobile Software [internetnews.com, 19 Feb 03]
• Real, Ericsson team on mobile media [CNET, 18 Feb 03]
• World Wide Web Consortium streaming text specification [Streaming Magazine, 18 Feb 03]
• Measures for Patent Pool, Urgently Required [Korea IT News, 18 Feb 03]
• First 3G phone from Sony Ericsson [infoSync World, 17 Feb 03]
• The AniMatrix: Episode 1 Is Ready For Download (QuickTime Only!) [The Mac Observer, 17 Feb 03]
• Samsung, Infineon collaborate on smartphone ref designs [Silicon Strategies, 17 Feb 03]
• Interface issues loom for full-featured phones [EETimesUK, 17 Feb 03]
• DSP envy is everywhere [EE Times, 17 Feb 03]
• Cinema-quality images in the comfort of your home [ITWeb, 17 Feb 03]

M4IF Member Press Releases

• Nero Digital Set to Become the Next Big Standard in Audio and Video Compression [Ahead Software, 12 Mar 03]
• Major News Organizations Use Sorenson Media to Deliver Breaking News from Middle East [Sorenson, 10 Mar 03]
• MPEG LA to Hold MPEG-4 License Information Meeting in Amsterdam, 19 March [MPEG LA, LLC, 05 Mar 03]
• PacketVideo Mobilemedia Powers Multimedia in Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone [PacketVideo, 05 Mar 03]
• Divio NW901 MPEG-4 CODEC Finalist for EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards [Divio, 03 Mar 03]
• Divio NW901 Single-Chip MPEG-4 Codec Powers Pretec Solid-State Camcorder [Divio, 28 Feb 03]
• dicas unveils mpegable Brodcaster [dicas, 25 Feb 03]
• Hungarians Stream GPRS Video [unstrung, 25 Feb 03]
• mpegable goes mobile [dicas, 24 Feb 03]
• PacketVideo Creates a Stir [ustrung, 19 Feb 03]
• Philips Gives Mobile Multimedia a Boost With Its Nexperia(TM) Cellular ... [Philips, 17 Feb 03]
• PV Puts Windows on Symbian [unstrung, 17 Feb 03]
• Samsung Elec, Infineon In Smart-Phone Devt [Samsung Electronics, 17 Feb 03]
• NeoMagic Announces Genesys GPRS Windows Powered Smartphone Ref Design [NeoMagic, 13 Feb 03]

Other MPEG-4 Press Releases

• Discreet Unveils cleaner XL for Windows--Next Generation Media Mastering and Streaming ... [Discreet, 05 Mar 03]
• Multimedia OEMs to Benefit From Single Chip Processor [TI, 03 Mar 03]
• World’s 1st 2MP DSC & MPEG-4 Tapeless Digital Camcorder with 30fps TV Quality [Pretec, 02 Mar 03]
• Alliance Urges Royalty-Free H.264 Video Standard [IMTC, 20 Feb 03]
• Teleca to deliver solution for streaming media in 3’s mobile network in Sweden [News Online, 20 Feb 03]
• ARM and Emuzed Bring Enhanced Multimedia Functionality to Smart Devices [ARM, 19 Feb 03]
• InterVideo Introduces Real-Time MPEG-2 Software Encoding for Broadcasting [InterVideo, 18 Feb 03]
• VBrick Systems Unveils VBXcast, an Intelligent Video Appliance That ... [VBrick, 17 Feb 03]
• DMOD Ships Version 2.5 of DMOD WorkSpace™ Software for Secure Digital ... [DMOD, 11 Feb 03]
• OpenIPMP Seeks to Break the DRM Stalemate with Release of Open-Source, ... [Objectlab, 07 Feb 03]
• 3ivxDelta 4 delivers high quality, optimized MPEG-4 playback, encoding to Windows, Mac [3ivx, 04 Feb 03]
• Telestream Announces FlipFactory Support for PacketVideo MPEG-4 [Telestream, 03 Feb 03]
• Audio and Video to Pioneer Multimedia Home Network Market [In-Stat/MDR, 28 Jan 03]
• Navigator Technology Ventures Announces Investment in Sand Video [Navigator Technology, 27 Jan 03]
• CAST Releases MPEG-4 and JPEG 2000 IP Cores [CAST, Inc., 27 Jan 03]
• Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) Welcomes Four New Members [ISMA, 21 Jan 03]

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