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Fixating Works

Advancement in society – and ingenuity in developing appropriate technologies – created written works. If one takes the remaining samples of old written works, it is easy to imagine that...
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Rights

Being able to own “rights” to something is a fundamental concept of living beings: ants own the “right” to suck aphids, but they are “obliged” to feed them, if they...
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Protecting Rights

The MPEG-1 standard was an offspring of its age. Just as CD Audio had no content protection provision  – something the music industry had come to regret – the MPEG-1...
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Computer Programming

Electronic computers have been a great invention indeed and the progress of the hardware that has enabled the building of machines that get smaller and smaller year after year while,...
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Operating System Abstraction

My encounter with IT as a (business) tool for the AV world happened towards the end of the MPEG-2 development and was greatly enhanced by my participation in the DAVIC...
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Humans Interact With Machines

Devising methods to interact with machines and the very act of interacting with them are often endeavours with varying degrees of challenge. Playing a musical instrument may require years of...
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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...
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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...
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MPEG-4 Inside – Systems

Many papers and books explain the MPEG-4 standard using the figure below, originally contributed by Phil Chou, then with Xerox PARC. This page will be no different :-). We will...
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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...
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MPEG-4 Inside – Audio

MPEG-4 Audio provides complete coverage of the bitrate range of 2 to 64 kbit/s. Good coded speech is obtained already at 2 kbit/s and transparent quality of monophonic music sampled...
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MPEG-4 Inside – File Format

The MPEG File Format has been designed to satisfy a set of requirements, some of which are listed below Binary assets Hierarchical structure Backward- & forward-compatible Suitable to hold timed...
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The Impact Of MPEG-4

At the MPEG Vancouver meeting in July 1999 it was realised that, while interest in MPEG-4 remained high and diffuse, apparently there was no industry or company that was willing...
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Bits And Bytes

A very general way of classifying information is based on its being structured or unstructured, i.e. on its appearing or being organised according to certain rules. Characters are a special...
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Open Source Software

If art is defined as something that people take pleasure in producing, that contains something that different people agree is intrinsically beautiful and, therefore, connoisseurs can admire and talk about,...
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