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Technology and Business Insights
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By
Sebastian Moeritz, Sebastian is CEO of dicas digital image coding GmbH, a leading MPEG-focused video coding specialist based in Berlin, Germany. He is also the President of the MPEG Industry Forum.
Klaus Diepold, Klaus has been actively involved with the MPEG-4 standardization process since 1995 and developed various video-based products. He is
a professor for data processing in the EE department at Munich University of Technology in Munich, Germany.
Description
The Practical Guide to MPEG 4 offers an up to date introduction to this important interactive and multimedia compression standard (including
MPEG-4 Part 10), with real examples and information as to how and where this new technology should be used. All aspects of MPEG-4 that
are relevant in today's technical landscape are described in this book, including video and audio creation, production, distribution,
reception and consumption environment. This book explains everything you really need to know in jargon-free language: interactive systems,
content management, deployment, licensing and business models.
Audience
Audio, video, broadcasting, computing and communications technicians and engineers. There will be enough elementary description for non-technical managers and decision makers.
Contents
1. Preface
(Technology POV) Klaus Diepold
(Business POV) Sebastian Moeritz
2. Introduction
The evolution of Video Audio and Multimedia
Standards
The Moving Picture Experts' Group
MPEG Numerology, MPEG-1, 2, 4, 7, 21, MP3
MPEG-4, the media standard
Standards vs
Proprietary Technologies
MPEG-4 Profiles and Structures explained
Interoperability
Transition from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4
3. Acquisition,
Creation, production
Shooting and capture formats
Acquisition and Transcoding
Video Compression
Audio Compression
Synthetic
content (3D meshes, Structured Audio, Facial animation)
Making a Scene - Object Based Interactivity
Examples
4. Content Management,
Playout, Delivery
Business Models and Industry Segments
MPEG-4 for broadband
MPEG-4 for mobile telephones
MPEG-4 for broadcasters
MPEG-4 for the industrial market
Ingesting and Archiving
Content Management
Managing an Interactive TV Platform
Protecting
and Proliferating Content
Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast
Examples
5. Reception, Consumption, Repurposing
Codecs and Players
Computer, TV and Mobile, Wireless Platforms
Interacting
Privacy, Security
Sharing content
Examples
6. The business aspects of
MPEG-4
In which markets is MPEG-4 used and why?
How to make money with MPEG-4
How to save money with MPEG-4
Business arguments
for and against standards
Licensing of MPEG-4
Introduction and history
Patents and Standards - a contradiction?
Examples
7. Outlook
Present use and proliferation of MPEG-4
Future use and proliferation of MPEG-4
The future of MPEG
MPEG-4 IPMP Intellectual Property
MPEG 4 Part 10/JVT/H.264
MPEG-7 (multimedia content referencing)
MPEG-21 (Content Management across devices, networks)
8. Appendices
Online resources
Glossary
Use cases
References
Acknowledgements
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Paperback, 328 pages, publication date: SEP-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80594-8
ISBN-10: 0-240-80594-1
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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