29 MPEG-4 Vendors Successfully Test Interoperable Products; MPEG-4 Standard Passes Major Test With Interoperability Achieved Between a Growing Number of Vendors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB 2002 Booth S6934 SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF M4IF MPEG 4 Industry Forum M4IF Mpeg4 Industry Forum ) today announced that 29 MPEG-4 vendors have successfully carried out three rounds of interoperability tests of products based on the MPEG-4 standard. The world's largest MPEG-4 interoperability program continues to grow as it enters its fourth round, which indicates a strong foundation for MPEG-4 proliferation and deployment. Participants in the interoperability program include: Amphion, Apple Computer, Avipix, Cirrus Logic (company) Cirrus Logic - A manufacturer of integrated circuits including the Advanced RISC Machine and display interface processors and cards for use as Windows accelerators (requiring dedicated driver software). http://cirrus.com/. , Comverse, Diamondback Vision, DivX Networks, Emblaze em·blaze 1 tr.v. em·blazed, em·blaz·ing, em·blaz·es 1. To set on fire. 2. To cause to glow; light up. System, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Envivio, Fraunhofer IIS-A, Hantro, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , iVast, Luxxon, MTREC, NeoMagic, OnTimetek, Philips, PacketVideo, Reakosys, Samsung, Serome Technology, Sorenson Media Sorenson Media is a software company working in the multimedia area. They are known as the creators of the Sorenson Spark video codec. , Thomson Multimedia, VideoSpheres, WebCast Technologies. All participants are committed to building seamlessly interoperable MPEG-4 products and to creating a sound industry-wide basis for adoption of MPEG-4, the cross-domain, open content representation standard. The tests, which started early in 2001, follow MPEG-4's most popular profiles. They have included raw video bitstreams, raw audio bitstreams, MP4 files with video and audio, and MPEG-4 Systems bitstreams. The profiles include Simple, Simple Scalable and Advanced Simple Visual Profiles, and High Quality Audio Profile. "A 'profile' is a subset of the MPEG-4 standard that provides interoperability between products from different vendors, so that they do not have to implement the entire tool set on, e.g., a mobile device," said Jae-Seob Shin of Samsung, Korea, leader of the Interop work in M4IF. "Profiles allow MPEG-4 implementations to be exactly as complex as they need to be for a certain application. They are the key to an interoperable MPEG-4 ecosystem with products from many different vendors. MPEG-2 has shown the concept to work well." The next step in interoperability testing is live streaming according to the specification of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) was Founded in December 2000, by Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, IBM, Kasenna, Philips, and Sun Microsystems. It is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to accelerate the market adoption of open standards for streaming and (www.isma.tv). Also, M4IF is working on a self-certification program, which will allow vendors to test compliance of their products. Compliant products will be granted the right to carry the recently finalized M4IF logo, which will signify to users that products are interoperable. Interoperable MPEG-4 solutions will be demonstrated at NAB 2002, from 6-11 April. M4IF will be in the Sands location, booth S6934. See www.m4if.org/exhibitions/NAB.php for a list of MPEG-4 exhibits at NAB, and www.m4if.org/public/interop/ for information about M4IF's interoperability program. About MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is the interactive coding standard for all digital multimedia platforms. Developed by ISO/IEC's "Moving Picture Experts Group (compression, standard, algorithm, file format, body) Moving Picture Experts Group - (MPEG, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11) An ISO committee that generates standards for digital video compression and audio. Also the name of their algorithms. " that also designed MPEG-2 (the digital television standard) and MPEG-1 including MP3. Being object-based and extending beyond video and audio, MPEG-4 supports rich, interactive, standards-based multimedia from low bandwidths to transparent quality. More information: http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com About M4IF M4IF consists of more than 100 companies from diverse industries evenly distributed across North America, Europe and Asia, addressing all MPEG-4 adoption issues that go beyond the charter of ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). . Activities of the forum include an interoperability program, certification, several working groups, access to ISO/MPEG committee members, and the 3rd annual Workshop and Exhibition on MPEG-4 from 25-27 June in San Jose, United States. More information: http://www.m4if.org |
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