The MP4 Standard

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The MP4 Standard

• Joseph Hess
• CIS 95-1

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Introduction

• Latest audio and video coding standard
• Official name is MPEG-4
• Motion Picture Experts Group
• Released in 1998

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History

• MP3s revolutionized
• the music industry
• Officially MPEG-1 layer 3
• MPEG-2 did for videos what MP3s did for music
• Fast downloading of high-quality media made
  possible

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History of the MP3

• German electronics specialist Karlheinz
  Brandenburg is father of the mp3
• Introduced in 1992
• Made it possible to compress music for easy
  downloading and storage
• Only worked for audio (not video)

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MPEG-4

• Developed by Motion Picture Experts Group
• Sub-group of International
• Organization for Standardization
• Worked on by hundreds of specialists worldwide

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MPEG-4

• The MPEG-4 standard is taking audio and video
  compression to the next level
• Allows for faster streaming and downloading
• Makes watching live newscasts and videos online
  possible
• Most Commonly used
• with Apples QuickTime

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MPEG-4 Components

• MPEG-4 standard made up of 8 parts
• System tools
• Visual
• Audio
• Conformance tests
• Reference Software
• Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework
• Optimized software for MPEG-4 tools
• MPEG-4 on IP framework

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Advantages of the MPEG-4 Standard

• Not written in unchangeable format
• Works with any device (not just one brand)
• Can be played around with and made better

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New Features of the MPEG-4

• Virtual Reality Modeling Language
• File format for representing 3D interactive
  vector graphics
• Designed specifically with the Internet in mind
• Digital Rights Management
• Technical methods used to handle description,
  layering, analysis, valuation, trading and
  monitoring of the rights held over a digital work

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Future of MPEG Standards

• MPEG-7
• Add-on type feature for the MPEG-4
• Does not compress files for playback
• MPEG-21
• Possibly an end-all standard
• Outlines all the pieces of a standard-based
  system
• Considered the successor of the MPEG-4

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The End
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• "MPEG-4 The container for digital media." Apple
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• "The History of MP3." About Inventors.
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• "MPEG-4." Wikipedia. 19 Nov. 2005
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