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.
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.
Lucent Technologies has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft over the same MPEG-2 decoding technology at the centre of a 2003 legal dispute.
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.
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.
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A new streaming-media standard promises to unify a fractious market, but inferior quality and bureaucracy may block acceptance.
Thanks to QuickTime's promised MPEG-4 compression technology, movie previews now look absolutely stellar. But don't get used to seeing the pretty pictures.
The old multimedia standard offers up a new edition with support for high-quality MPEG- 4 streaming and more.
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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