Why this book? In a generation, life of the large majority of human beings is incredibly different than the life of the generation before. The ability to communicate made possible by ubiquitous internet and to convey media content to others made possible by MPEG standards can be mentioned among the most important factors of change. […]
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Table of Contents
Why this book? 0 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 The discontinuity of digital technologies 3 MPEG and digital media 4 The MPEG principles 5 The MPEG operation 5.1 The MPEG organisation 5.2 Organisation of work 5.3 How MPEG develops standards 5.4 The ecosystem drives MPEG standards 5.5 Standardisation and product making 5.6 Standards are living […]
1 – Introduction
Media is a word typically used to indicate the means that enable communication, e.g. radio, television, storage media, internet. This book, however, calls those media delivery media and uses the word “media” or more precisely, “media content” to indicate the information conveyed by the delivery media. This is not an abstract distinction. It is the core […]
2 – The discontinuity of digital technologies
Introduction This chapter analyses four aspects of the media distribution business and their enabling technologies: Analogue media distribution describes the vertical businesses of analogue media distribution; Digitised media describes media digitisation and why it was largely irrelevant to distribution; Compressed digital media describes how industry tried to use compression for distribution; Digital technologies for media […]
3 – MPEG and digital media
Introduction The first problem to be tackled was that the MPEG “digital baseband” had to be based on standards, and international ones because they had to have global validity. The second problem to be addressed was that the standards should not be industry specific. The question then was: where should those standards be developed? The […]
4 – The MPEG principles
Introduction The challenging goals that MPEG set to itself 3 decades ago have been successfully achieved across many generations of digital media standards implemented in countless products, applications and services by many different industries in interoperable ways. How could this happen? A significant part of the answer lies in the fact that MPEG has developed […]
5 – The MPEG operation
Over the years, MPEG has developed a large number of standards and specifications following the principles described in the Chapter MPEG Principles and implemented them in an efficient way. This operational practice obviously respects the general rules laid down in the ISO/IEC directives. The MPEG organisation describes MPEG’s internal organisation; Organisation of work describes how the expertise […]
5.1 – The MPEG organisation
The MPEG membership MPEG’s most precious assets are its members. As MPEG is an ISO working group, to be entitled to attend and actively participate, experts and/or their companies must be members of one of the 162 national standards organisations who are members of ISO (or as an approved liaison officer from another organisation). Respondents […]
5.2 – Organisation of work
Introduction No one, reading MPEG standards, should deny that the spectrum of MPEG standards is an impressive set of disparate technologies integrated to cover fields connected by the common thread of technologies underpinning Data Compression: Coding of Video, Audio, 3D Graphics, Fonts, Digital Items, Sensors and Actuators Data, Genome, and Neural Networks; Media Description and […]
5.3 – How MPEG develops standards
The discovery of algorithms that enable better and/or new audio-visual user experiences may trigger the development and deployment of highly rewarding solutions. By joining MPEG, companies owning good technologies have the opportunity to make them part of a standard that will help industry develop top performance and interoperable products, services and applications. Figure 9 depicts how […]