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Coping With An Unpredictable Internet

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is a media-streaming standard in which the client has control of the server-client information flow. Clients may request data using the HTTP protocol from...
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Inside MPEG-H – Systems

MPEG Media Transport (MMT) has been designed to support the second half of the MPEG-H title “Media Delivery in Heterogeneous Environments” and is based on the following assumptions IP-based delivery:...
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MPEG-H Inside – 2D Video

The video coding layer of HEVC is based on the typical “hybrid” approach (inter- and intra-picture prediction and 2D transform coding) with some key differences that enhance compression. Figure 1...
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Explorations

The MPEG machine churns out new standards or amendments at a regular pace, but MPEG is also continuously investigating new standardisation needs. Here is a list of some of the...
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End of the MPEG ride?

In an endeavour like MPEG any time is a good time to ask the question: does MPEG still have a role to play? I can see three reasons why it...
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The Future Of Research

There is more than one reason why I feel the need for a page on the future of research I have spent a large part of my professional life –...
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Acknowledgements

I feel obliged to write this page. This most extraordinary ride on media bits that I have had in the last quarter of a century has been a truly unique,...
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Acronyms

1D One-dimensional 2D Two-dimensional 3D Three-dimensional 3DG 3D Graphics 3DV 3D Video 3G Third Generation (mobile) 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Program 8VSB 8 Vestigial Side Band AAC Advanced Audio Coding...
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MPEG Subgroups and Chairs

  MPEG subgroups and their acronyms(those disbanded in italic) Subgroup Acronym 3D Graphics Coding 3D Joint Collaborative Team on 3D Video 3V Applications and Operational Environments AO Audio AU Delivery Multimedia...
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MPEG Standards

ISO# Acr./Part Title 11172 (MPEG-1) Coding of moving pictures and associated audio at up to about 1.5 Mbit/s Part 1 Systems Part 2 Video Part 3 Audio Part 4 Conformance...
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Acronyms

In the digital media field there are just too many acronyms. This page says what at least some of them mean. An acronym link will take you to the first...
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