Tuesday, April 22, 2024 22:55 PST - MPEG-4 News Digest week 16, 2003

MPEG-4 News Readers,

Last week things were slow to pick up again after NAB. In week 17 - this week- there will be significantly more news.Promise! (Or just go check the website)

Still, there are some noteworthy facts. The week after BBC and Envivio announced a trial with MPEG-4 Systems technology, two more independent MPEG-4 Systems tool sets were released: freely downloadable "Osmo4" by ENST from Paris, and "TVM4" by TVIA which also has a freely downloadable player. The licensing situation in MPEG-4 Visual lingers on as something to write about, witness be two articles referenced below.

M4IF will hold its next (annual) membership meeting on 26 and 27 June in Montreal. Details online in a day or two. Contact Paul Ritchie (see CC) if you are interested in joining M4IF and want to sample this meeting.

M4IF is working with Streaming Media on Streaming Media New York, May 6-8. M4IF Members get significant discounts.

ISO recently published Amendment 2 to Part 5 of MPEG-4, "Reference software". This contains the Reference Software for XMT, The eXtensible MPEG-4 Textual format. I am not sure when it will be available for free download.

Kind Regards,
Rob Koenen

Recent News on MPEG-4

• Patent squabble delays TV-to-cellphone debut [Asahi Shimbun, 18 Apr 03] - On how licensing is perceived by broadcasters in Japan
• Music Industry Savior?--Steve Jobs Is The Media's Darling [Mac Observer, 17 Apr 03] - Interesting guesswork about Apple's plans for music distribution with equally interesting take on DRM
• LSI Logic bids for H.264 market with VideoLocus acquisition [CommsDesign, 16 Apr 03] - about the increasing interest in for AVC | H.264.
• The hard sell on software [NJ.com, 13 Apr 03] - "... but it's fair to say the licensing terms for MPEG-4 are acceptable in the marketplace."

Recent Member Press Releases

• TVIA Unveils MPEG-4 Software Technology For Embedded Interactive Consumer Devices [Tvia, 16 Apr 03]
• Download Osmo4, "the world's most advanced 2D MPEG-4 Systems player" [ENST, 14 Apr 03]
• Sorenson, Avid Launch Integrated Editing SW for Video for QT, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, ... [Sorenson, 10 Apr 03]

Upcoming events and M4IF conference calls

• 05-08 May 03 - Streaming Media NY (Significant discount for M4IF members applies)
• 12-14 May 03 - KNK's MPEG-4 Seminars
• 13 May 03 - M4IF Board Conference Call
• 15 May 03 - M4IF Interop WG Conference Call
• 15-16 May 03 - TV Meets the Web, NL, with panel on standards
• 16 May 03 - Advanced Video Coding (H.264/MPEG-4) by KNK Seminars
• 20-22 May 03 - Mediacast 2003
• 17-20 June 03 - Broadcast Asia, Singapore
• 26-27 June 03 - Annual M4IF meeting, Montreal
• 23-27 June 03 - Apple WWDC, San Francisco, US
• 21-25 July 03 - 56th MPEG meeting, Norway
• 11-22 Aug 03 - Audio Coding Workshop, CA, US

Why Join MPEGIF??

MPEGIF Logo Qualification Program

Download the NEW Whitepaper on MPEG-4

Quick Links

Search this site

Join MPEGIF's public mailing lists

Archive of Weekly News Digests

White Papers

White paper: High Efficiency AAC - World's Best Audio Codec

Intro to MPEG-7

Intro to MPEG-21

Brochures

What is AVC??

What is AAC?

What is (Advanced) Simple Profile?

On interactivity in MPEG-4

About MPEGIF's logo

Guidelines for Members and Non-members

MPEGIF Sponsored Events