Understanding MPEG-4: Technologies, Advantages and Markets

Building on the enormous success of the MPEG1 and MPEG2 standards, MPEG4 offers new audio and video codecs with twice the performance of MPEG2 enabling new services ranging from HDTV satellite broadcasting to mobile video and games on handheld devices. This whitepaper from the MPEG Industry Forum looks in depth at the potential and properties of MPEG-4.  

To find the paper please visit http://www.mpegif.org and look at the right hand side. The document is in a zip file.

In this paper you will learn about:

• What MPEG-4 actually is
• Why manufacturers and system operators have chosen MPEG-4
• Applications and Markets for MPEG-4
• How MPEG-4 relates to other standards
• Answers to common questions about MPEG-4