MPEG standards

March 16, 2005 6:37 AM

The MPEG website seems pretty dead. Is anyone doing anything interesting with MPEG-7? Is anyone doing anything interesting with MPEG-21?
posted by Pretty_Generic to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Wikipedia's MPEG-7 article says that "[i]t uses XML to store metadata, and can be attached to timecode in order to tag particular events, or synchronise lyrics to a song, for example." So, seems to be trying for standardized karaoke?

Wikipedia's MPEG-21 article is pretty sparse but points to this write-up, which states that "[t]he goal of MPEG-21 can thus be rephrased to: defining the technology needed to support Users to exchange, access, consume, trade and otherwise manipulate Digital Items in an efficient, transparent and interoperable way." Sounds like Apple's Redezvous is to networking as MPEG-21 is to digital media.

Want I want to know is: when the hell does MPEG-4 Lossless come out? I've heard that it's done, but just hasn't been released yet.
posted by bitpart at 9:24 AM on March 16, 2005

MPEG may have lost some credibility due to the MPEG-4 licensing fiasco. I'm not sure it has the same support it once did.
posted by Galvatron at 9:45 AM on March 16, 2005