Friday 1 August 2023 - MPEG-4 News Digest week 30, 2003

MPEGIF News Readers,

In week 30, MPEGIF welcomed QUALCOMM and VidTools as new members.

Preparation for the IBC  show in September in Amsterdam are in full swing. Our booth will feature 9 pods with members displaying MPEG-4 Audio and Video solutions, including two (new) members showing Advanced Video Coding (a.k.a. H.264). We will also show MPEG-7 technology on our booth.

The 65th MPEG meeting ended a week ago. MPEG approved the final drafts for the MPEG-21 parts called "Rights Expression Language" and "Rights Data Dictionary", and made progress on the spec that defines how to carry AVC content over MPEG-2 Transport Streams. MPEG completed the work on MPEG-4 Reference Hardware (part 9), which consists of standard, portable HDL descriptions of MPEG-4 tools. (HDL stands for Hardware Description Language). MPEG's press release is here.

Best Regards,

Rob Koenen

Recent News on MPEG-4/-7/-21 (Archive of MPEG News)

• No Lock on the Door at Digital Home [internetnews.com, 25 July 03]

• Archos Video AV320 Review, by PCMag [www.pcmag.com, 25 July 03]
• Sony unveils low power, high integration handheld processor [linuxdevices, 23 July 03]
• Police get on the cyber beat [Australian IT, 22 July 03]
• Sand Video offers H.264 decoder core licenses [EE Times, 22 July 03]
• Sand Video ups ante in decoder sector; offering H.264-compliant core for ... [EBN, 22 July 03]
• Wireless Digital Video Surveillance For Dredging Operation [ChannelNewsAsia, 21 July 03]
• Nero 6 Blazes New Trails in Disk Burning [eWEEK, 21 July 03]

Recent Press Releases (Archive of  MPEG Press Releases)

• MAGIX Licenses DivX® Technology as Default Codec For New MAGIX Movie Maker® ... [DivXNetworks, 23 July 03]
• Sand Video to Release First Commercially Available AVC/H.264 High Definition ... [Sand Video, 22 July 03]

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

• 11-22 Aug 03 - Audio Coding Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, USA

• 25-28 Aug 03 - KNK's MPEG-4 & AVC Seminars, CA, USA

• 11-16 Sept 03 -  IBC 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 30 Sept 03 - MPEG-4 panel at Digital Hollywood, LA, CA, US  

• 23-27 Feb 04 - 3GSM, Cannes, France

If you have any MPEG-4 events - wherever they are - please send name, date, place and link to [email protected]

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