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MPEG-4 standard struggles for traction
News Digital-media start-up iVast has quietly ceased US operations, highlighting the challenging market for multimedia products based on the emerging MPEG-4 standard. DG2L sells a high-definition digital cinema video system based on MPEG-4, which is a...
[February 23, 2004, 10:10]
MPEG-4 backers protest Microsoft licence
News Proponents of MPEG-4 are decrying Microsoft's new licensing fees for rival technology, saying that the pricing poses unfair competition and threatens consumer choice. MPEG LA, which represents 18 patent holders that have claims on underlying MPEG-4...
[January 10, 2003, 7:51]
MPEG-4, VRML 2.0 breathe life into avatars
News Between now and September 24, the VRML/MPEG-4 liaison WG working group is to raise a list of requirements for the MPEG committee, from the VRML community. MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) is a working group of the ISO (International Standards...
[August 15, 1997, 8:00]
MPEG-4 gets a new rival
News Video-compression provider On2 Technologies is taking aim at MPEG-4, releasing an update of its own technology, known as VP5, as companies wrangle over proposed licensing fees for the emerging digital video standard.
[February 25, 2002, 10:57]
RealNetworks: MPEG-4 could be DOA
News Proposed licensing fees for MPEG-4, a next-generation video compression standard, could mean its early death on the personal computer, RealNetworks chief executive Rob Glaser said in a press conference on Wednesday.
[April 26, 2002, 8:43]
MPEG-4 adoption gets closer as licence released
News A consortium of companies holding patents attached to the MPEG-4 multimedia standard released its licence for the technology, raising hopes for widespread adoption. The license released on Monday is essentially the same as one proposed by the...
[November 26, 2002, 9:24]
MPEG-4 Network Migration: Solutions and Benefits
White Papers MPEG-4 is a standard for video compression that allows network operators to dramatically improve digital video bandwidth utilization by roughly twice the comparable MPEG-2 industry benchmark for digital video distribution.
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
MPEG-4 on road to rights management
News A streaming-media consortium set a schedule this week for finalising technical specs for MPEG-4 security and rights management -- components that are key to the open standard's adoption among content owners.
[January 29, 2003, 7:46]
MPEG-4 adds interactivity to video
News After lying low for a couple of years, MPEG-4 -- the successor to the technologies that spawned the MP3 audio explosion -- is catching on with developers who are taking advantage of its ability to manipulate digital music and video files.
[August 9, 2001, 10:41]
MPEG-4 format to boost digital video
News H.264 requires about three to four times the computing horsepower of MPEG-2," he said. In addition, H.264 is not "backwards compatible," meaning software written for older MPEG-4 formats, including SP and ASP, will not automatically support it.
[October 11, 2002, 11:53]
3ivx MPEG-4
Downloads 3ivx MPEG-4 is a mature industry standard video compression system which enables the transmission and storage of video, which would otherwise be too large to store or transmit.ivx MPEG-4 5.0.2 for Mac OS X consists of MPEG-4 Video and File Format...
[December 22, 2007, 7:00]
Nuggets: World's first MPEG 4 InternetCam from Sharp
News What you've got is a gadget costing just under £600 (price may fall before release in Summer) that can record a maximum of 1 hour's video in MPEG 4 format and provide instant movies that can be plugged straight into a PC.
[March 25, 1999, 16:56]
Streaming media group closes in on MPEG-4 copy protection
News Aiming to close a long-standing gap in digital rights management for MPEG-4, a streaming media consortium is seeking comments on an encryption specification scheduled for release in June. MPEG-4, a standard for compressing audio and video files for...
[April 1, 2003, 7:39]
Companies fear costly MPEG-4 licences
News A newly proposed MPEG-4 licensing plan is sending jitters through multimedia circles, raising cost concerns about a new standard that promises to bring powerful interactive features to digital video. Some MPEG-4 backers praised the licensing plan...
[February 11, 2002, 10:50]
Apple gives MPEG-4 a new shine
News Apple Computer said Tuesday that people are gravitating toward QuickTime 6 and its underlying MPEG-4 standard for digital media playback -- a force to rival momentum for Microsoft's proprietary system.
[October 16, 2002, 8:10]
RealNetworks backs MPEG-4
News The proposed standard would succeed MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, which fueled the MP3 Internet music revolution. The company said it will support the MPEG-4 standard in upcoming versions of its RealSystem iQ and RealOne media player products, and provide...
[December 11, 2001, 10:17]
Java-based streaming '10 times faster than MPEG-4'
News Finnish developer Oplayo has been demonstrating a compression technology at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes which, says the company, is up to ten times faster for delivering audio and video to mobile devices than MPEG-4.
[February 20, 2002, 12:36]
Cross-Layer Optimization of OFDM Transmission Systems for MPEG-4 Video Streaming
White Papers This paper studies the performance of a combined link- and physical-layer approach for the downlink of a dynamic OFDM-FDMA transmission system delivering MPEG-4 video streams. The approach consists of three different mechanisms - queue management...
[April 11, 2007, 1:01]
Group sets MPEG-4 licensing standards
News MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalised licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. We've met a lot of the concerns that have been expressed in the...
[July 16, 2002, 12:19]
Tech giants push MPEG-4 standard
News A standards body comprising such tech heavyweights as Apple Computer and Cisco Systems has released a specification for streaming MPEG-4 video and audio via the Web. MPEG-4 is the successor of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, technologies behind the MP3 audio...
[October 5, 2001, 10:05]
