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MPEG-21 Development

After the memorable achievement of the PD 1.0 specification, I tried hard to convince SDMI people that the group should work on developing interoperable specifications that included specific technologies beyond...
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Inside MPEG-21

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...
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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...
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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...
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The First Application Formats

Starting 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...
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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...
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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...
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Generic MPEG Systems Standards

MPEG-B Part 1 “Binary MPEG format for XML” (BiM) was originally developed a the technology to compress MPEG-7 Descriptors and Description Schemes and placed in MPEG-7 Part 1. BiM was...
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Generic MPEG Video Standards

MPEG-C Part 1 “Accuracy specification for implementation of integer-output IDCT” specifies the IDCT accuracy that is equivalent to or extends the IEEE 1180 standard. This standard referenced by quite a...
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Generic MPEG Audio Standards

MPEG-D Part 1 “MPEG Surround” provides an efficient bridge between stereo and multichannel presentations in low-bitrate applications. The MPEG Surround technology supports very efficient parametric coding of multi-channel audio signals,...
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Reconfigurable Media Coding

While MPEG was busily developing more and more video compression standards, China decided that it could well afford to have its own national digital audio-video-system technology and in June 2002...
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MPEG-4 Inside – Graphics

At the Tokyo meeting in July 1995 Hiroshi Yasuda showed up and proposed to address the coding of information that is partly natutal (e.g. a video, a music) and partly...
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