Internet

Today the word “Internet” have become part of everyone’s everyday vocabulary. So it is understandable that many people, with grounds or without, claim to have had a role in their development. I firmly claim to have had no role in the development of either. At the time I started MPEG,…

MPEG-4 Development

Cliff Reader, who had joined Samsung after leaving Cypress, was appointed as chair of a new AHG with the task of identifying applications and requirements of the new project that had already been christened MPEG-4, before the early dismissal of the MPEG-3 project in July 1992. At the following meeting…

MPEG-4 Inside – Visual

MPEG-4 Visual provides a coding algorithm for natural video that is capable of operating from 5 kbit/s with a spatial resolution of QCIF (144×176 pixels) scaling up to bitrates of some Mbit/s for ITU-R 601 resolution pictures (288×720@50Hz and 240×720@59.94 Hz). Additionally the Studio Profile addresses an operation range in…