September 2012
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 9m
English
In this chapter, we provide an overview of the technology that has finally been standardized in MPEG-4. Let’s start with a description of the underlying trends that have initiated and shaped the technical content of the standard. These trends have induced a number of new application scenarios and service proposals dictating technical requirements that were subsequently transformed into an overall technical framework for MPEG-4. We will discuss the resulting overall architecture on a conceptual level to highlight how it is fundamentally different from existing coding standards in terms of the basic approach. Subsequently, we will give a comprehensive description of the individual technical constituents ...
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