| Digital Media Do More |
After the incredible successes of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, no one should have risked its track record in an unexplored project about video and audio coding for a medium – the internet – still unexplored for media. This chapter gives an overview of MPEG-4, a project that generated more than 30 standard opening new fields to standardisation. |
| Media Meet Computers And Digital Networks |
The story of a project integrating most of the different technologies we have talked about so far adding a few more. |
| MPEG-4 Development |
Vision. enthusiasm and determination transformed the MPEG-4 idea into _the_ multimedia standard. |
| MPEG-4 Inside – Systems |
The MPEG-4 Systems standard does not compare with its two predecessors. This section describes how a real multimedia standard could be specified. |
| MPEG-4 Inside – Visual |
The “object” approach of MPEG-4 set by the System standard converted the traditional approach of rectangular vision to one based on video objects. |
| MPEG-4 Inside – Audio |
It would have been natural to think that MP3 was the last word to audio compression. This section will tell the story of how AAC has become the solution of choice for audio on handsets and beyond. |
| MPEG-4 Inside – File Format |
For the MPEG roots, video and audio were a stream. The new mostly IT-based roots of MPEG mandated that media could also be “files”. |
| MPEG-4 Inside – Advanced Video Coding |
There is apparently no limits to what video compression can achieve. After MPEG-4 Visual, Advanced Video Coding (AVC) added more compression. |
| MPEG-4 – Impact |
MPEG-4 signalled the final convergence of all industries to MPEG media. This section shows how MPEG-4 has changed the media landscape in all industries. |