MPEG-4 Industry Forum

Last week, IBM released its toolkit for MPEG-4. Check out IBM's new and comprehensive MPEG-4 pages. Here you can find tools, content, links, information and more. There is especially good information on XMT, the eXtensible MPEG-4 Textual format.

Our Resources page now has a new section that lists and links to (currently 10) MPEG-4 Market Research reports.

Hopefully you won't notice, but M4IF's website has had a major upgrade behind the scenes. To the user this means it's more dynamic and up-to-date - check out the new menus.

M4IF holds its next (annual) membership meeting on 26, 27 June in Montreal, Canada. Contact Paul Ritchie if you are a non-member interested in joining M4IF and want to sample this meeting. M4IF's Board emphasizes that no SARS cases have been reported in Montreal and that the city is 600 km. from Toronto. The WHO today announced that SARS is under control in Canada.

Kind Regards,
Rob Koenen

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Recent News on MPEG-4 (Archive of MPEG-4 News)

'Mobile TV' to Start MPEG-4 Alternative in 2005 [NE Asia, 07 May 03]
MPEG compression chip market to surge; ST and MediaTek top the 2002 market [DigiTimes, 06 May 03]
Apple top of the pops [CRN, 06 May 03]

Recent Member Press Releases (Archive of MPEG-4 Press Releases)

Cirrus Logic, Oregan Networks and MSI Develop Technology to Stream Rich Media... [Cirrus, 08 May 03]
Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2003 [Apple, 08 May 03]
Globe Telecom offers video messaging based on Hantro technology. [Hantro, 07 May 03]
Java-based IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 Now Available [IBM, 07 May 03]
Leader in Content Delivery Deploys RealNetworks' Helix Universal Server ... [RealNetworks, 07 May 03]
VBrick Systems' VBXcast Sweeps Best of Interop Awards, Winning ... [VBrick, 05 May 03]
DivXNetworks Launches First Ever DivX® for Mac Video Encoder [DivXNetworks, 05 May 03]

Other Recent Press Releases (Archive of MPEG-4 Press Releases)

Mad Catz' GameShark Media Player Brings New Audio, Video Functionality for PS2 [Mad Catz, 09 May 03]
TI and Partners Offer Consumers Access to Digital Media Content Anywhere In The House [TI, 08 May 03]
NHK Deploys Kasenna MPEG-4 Video Streaming Solution With SGI [Kasenna, 07 May 03]
SeaChange Automates Content Delivery across Digital Channels, High-Def ... [SeaChange Int'l, 05 May 03]
HyperRESEARCH 2.5 Expands Multi-Media Architecture [The Mac Observer, 05 May 03]
Digital Fountain Launches Licensing Program to Tap New Markets [Digital Fountain, 05 May 03]

Upcoming events and M4IF conference calls (Full M4IF Event Calendar)

26-27 June 03 - Annual M4IF meeting, Montreal, Canada
15 May 03 - M4IF Interop WG Conference Call
28 May 03 - M4IF Marketing WG Conference Call
03 June 03 - M4IF Board Conference Call
15-16 May 03 - TV Meets the Web, Amsterdam, NL (with panel on standards)
16 May 03 - Advanced Video Coding (H.264/MPEG-4) by KNK Seminars Sunnyvale, CA, USA
20-22 May 03 - Mediacast 2003, London, UK
20 June 03 - KNK's AVC|H.264 Seminar, Toronto, Canada
23-27 June 03 - Apple WWDC, San Francisco, US
17 July MPEG-4 Session at Macworld, San Francisco, CA, USA
21-25 July 03 - 56th MPEG meeting, Trondheim, Norway
11-22 Aug 03 - Audio Coding Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, USA
11-16 Sept 03 - IBC 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands

We would like to make the Calendar more global. If you have other MPEG-4 events - wherever they are - please send name, date, place and link to [email protected]

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