1st Edition
Understanding MPEG 4 Technology and Business Insights
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
· (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
Biography
Klaus Diepold, Sebastian Moeritz
"...this book is a pleasure to read...It is comprehensive and well structured. The writing style is lively and consistently non-technical. All in all, it should help readers to understand the whys and hows of MPEG-4 when used in broadcast and elsewhere." - EBU Technical Review
