Archives: 2015-August-20

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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