Part 1 of the MPEG-21 standard has the title “Vision, Technologies and Strategy“. It is not a standard but a Technical Report because it contains a description of part of the content of MPEG-21. Digital Item Declaration (DID) is part 2. This normative part defines the technology supporting DIs. The…
The Digital Media Project
By 2003 the MPEG-21 project that I had kicked off three years before in MPEG, as a result of my failure to convince SDMI to move to technology specification after their successful achievement of the Portable Device specification, was in full swing. Still I could already see that no matter…
Inside The Interoperable DRM Platform
The IDP specification is a set of 9 Approved Documents (AD), DMP lingo for specifications, addressing many, though not all yet, of the areas envisaged by the Digital Media Manifesto. Title Description Value-Chain Functions and Requirements A collection of Primitive Functions derived from today’s media value-chains with corresponding Requirements. Architecture…
Inside The Other DMP Phases
Open Media Marketplace In 2008 DMP began discussions on Open Media Marketplace (OMM), an environment where Users perform actions on Entities using Services provided by Service Providers. The following subset of OMM requirements should indicate where OMM would lead. OMM shall enable the provisioning of interoperable Services between OMM Users…
Doing Something For My Country
At the end of May 2005 I was invited to make a speech at an internal school of Mediaset (the main private broadcaster in Italy) in Cologno Monzese, near Milan. On that occasion I met Juan Carlos De Martin of the Polytechnic of Turin and Massimo Travostino, an attorney specialising…
The First Application Formats
Sntarting from the early 2000s, several sessions were held to discuss about “what else does industry need from MPEG?” in the typical MPEG anticipative fashion. Finally at the Munich meeting (March 2004) MPEG came to the conclusion that while MPEG had produced many component standards, the integration of technologies, save…
Multimedia Preservation Application Format
The successive waves of audio-visual technologies experiences by consumers in the last few decades are teaching one important lesson: every new technology creates a discontinuity Those who have created Super8 films and did not create a VHS copy risk losing their past. The same may soon happen to those who…
Publish/Subscribe Application Format
Publish/Subscribe (PubSub) is an established communication paradigm where senders do not communicate information directly to the intended receivers but rely instead on a service that mediates the relationship between senders and receivers. Specifically senders (called Publishers) post information to and receivers (called Subscribers) declare their interest in specific information to…
Media Linking Application Format
The success of the web has been largely dependent on the possibility to create a link from a point in a document to a point in another document. it is possible to link media but only from and entity to another entity. The European FP7 project BRIDGET, of which CEDEO…
Generic MPEG Technologies
It has always been a point of pride for MPEG to have been able to create the MPEG-1 Audio-Video-Systems package overcoming the informal, but nonetheless effective barriers that used to separate video coding people, audio coding people and those more “engineering minded” that MPEG calls “systems people”. This “package approach”…