MPEG Industry Forum

The collective World Broadcasting Unions last week issued a press release calling for a different type of license for MPEG-4 Visual. It wasn't released on an wire service as far as I can see, and didn't receive much attention.

More MPEG-4 products this week - Sharp released two new Zaurus models and a 1 Megapixel camera/phone; a new MPEG-4 Jukebox that both encodes and decodes was announced from LYRA (I4U calls it a "must have"); D-Link has a WiFi product with integrated MPEG-4 encoding for surveillance. Also on the product front, Sigma Designs announced that its DVD decoder chips with MPEG-4 Video support are finding their way into many new DVD models.

An interesting question on M4IF's Technotes list has resulted in a list of over 20 software players that understand MPEG-4. Details on the resources pages shortly.

M4IF's (annual) membership meeting is on 26, 27 June in Montreal, Canada. Non-members can contact Paul Ritchie to sample this meeting.

Kind Regards,
Rob Koenen

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Recent News on MPEG-4 (Archive of MPEG-4 News)

New LYRA Audio/Video Portable Jukebox [I4U, 23 May 03]
D-Link Home Security Wireless Camera Streams With MPEG-4 Compression. [streamingmedia, 22 May 03]
World's 1st megapixel camera phone [japantoday, 22 May 03]
World Broadcasting Unions (WBU) united in concerns for MPEG-4 licensing [WBU, 21 May 03]
Platform War Sets Stage For Streaming Seachange [StreamingMagazine, 21 May 03]
Sharp Introduces Two New Zaurus Models [pdaBlast!, 19 May 03]
MediaQ tackles mobile [EE Times, 19 May 03]
The new revolution in digital media hits Dubai [AME Info, 19 May 03]

Recent Member Press Releases (Archive of MPEG-4 Press Releases)

Sigma's DVD Decoder Chips Proliferate into a Widening Range of Advanced DVD Players [Sigma Designs, 22 May 03]
Easy-to-Use Dr. DivX™ Video Software Enables Anyone to Create High-Quality Video Files in Seconds [DivXNetworks, 21 May 03]
MediaQore Framework Unveiled in Katana Family of Application Processors [MediaQ, 19 May 03]
MediaQ App Processors: High-End Multimedia, Long Battery Life on Affordable Handhelds [MediaQ, 19 May 03]
Equator, Partners to Demonstrate Security Market Solutions at IFSEC 2003 [Equator, 19 May 03]
Cheertek Inc. To Deliver DivX Certified DVD Player Solutions [DivXNetworks, 19 May 03]

Other Recent Press Releases (Archive of MPEG-4 Press Releases)

D-Link's Home Security Wireless Internet Cam Delivers Professional Grade ... [D-Link, 21 May 03]
GridIron XLR8(TM) first solution to enable commercially viable distributed video encoding ... [GridIron, 21 May 03]
Plextor Introduces PC Industry's 1st Digital Video Converter with Real-Time MPEG-4 ... [Plextor, 19 May 03]

Upcoming events and M4IF conference calls (Full M4IF Event Calendar)

26-27 June 03 - Annual M4IF meeting, Montreal, Canada
29 May 03 - Interoperability WG Conf Call
03 June 03 - Board Conference Call
11 June 03 - Marketing WG Conference Call
25 June 03 - Marketing WG Conference Call
20 June 03 - KNK's AVC|H.264 Seminar, Toronto, Canada
23-27 June 03 - Apple WWDC, San Francisco, US
17 July 03 - MPEG-4 Session at Macworld, San Francisco, CA, USA
21-25 July 03 - 56th MPEG meeting, Trondheim, Norway
11-22 Aug 03 - Audio Coding Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, USA
11-16 Sept 03 - IBC 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands
30 Sept 03 - MPEG-4 panel at Digital Hollywood, LA, CA, US

We would like to make the Calendar more global. If you have other MPEG-4 events - wherever they are - please send name, date, place and link to events@m4if.org

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