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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
Bibliographic & ordering Information
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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USD 51.95
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Last update: 29 Aug 2008
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