"MPEG - On The Frontier"

MPEG has proven to be a viable standard for broadcast, streaming and DVD consumption of video and audio with the overriding support of H.264 and AAC encoding by all major players and platforms today. The depth and breadth of this standard has been over shadowed lately by business concerns for how to pay for new media outlets and how to balance the broadcast and online markets for maximum coverage and profit. With an awareness of all that this standard has to offer, perhaps companies can realize these goals and at the same time streamline production by committing to this standard for the next generation of digital media delivery.

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• A Roadmap to Digital Convergence: MPEG-4 Technology Developments

  Digital convergence means gaining universal access to the right materials – rich, useful and focused content – in the right place at the right time. It is about bringing content to the viewer through increasingly more portable formats. It is about the next generation of media delivery in the technology revolution.

  Our roadmap describes the technology developments that fuel the digital convergence of media communications. MPEG is the foundation for this evolution because, as a standard, it allows easy access to the right type of content, in the right place and at the right time.

• "Tracking MPEG-4 at Streaming Media East"
  

  Interoperability, scalability and device independence would be the features you'd have heard most often during the MPEG-4 session of the Streaming Media conference. A full day of panels and speakers was sponsored by the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF), the group spear-heading the efforts to make MPEG-4 the industry standard for next generation streaming media. Sessions covered include:

  
  
  • Natural Codecs (A/V) and Interoperability
    
    
  • Non-Natural Codecs (BIFs, Facial, 3D, Structured Audio)
    
    
  • Applications
    
    
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