A newly proposed MPEG-4 licensing plan is sending jitters through multimedia circles, raising cost concerns about a new standard that promises to bring powerful interactive features to digital video.
The streaming company says it will support MPEG-4, which could offer new interactive enhancements and greatly simplify sending digital audio and video over the Internet.
A standards body comprising such tech heavyweights as Apple Computer and Cisco Systems has released a specification for streaming MPEG-4 video and audio via the Web.
Australia's CSIRO research organisation has developed a Firefox plugin named Annodex that allows browsing through time-continuous media such as audio and video in the same way that HTML allows browsing through text.
A plan to impose licence fees for MPEG-4 products could stifle the new video compression standard before it really gets going, according to RealNetworks CEO Rob Glazer.
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DivXNetworks unveiled a new version of its compression technology that promises to let Internet users shrink video files on the PC to play back on a range of consumer electronics devices.
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