MPEG-4 the multi media format of the future ?

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Article posted 01 Apr 03 17:28

Is MPEG-4 ready for the masses ?

 

MPEG-4 allows you to optimise every part of the movie, while maintaining compatibility. MPEG-4 contains a wide variety of compression technologies to deliver the best performance for every kind of content. So what’s in it for you? Well, better quality, less disk usage and the ability to get better quality movies streaming over your internet connection. Currently many technologies are being developed to ensure better compression of audio and video and some of them are already available right now! In the end MPEG-4 should guarantee that MPEG-4 files will play on every MPEG-4 compatible device, whether it’s brand A or brand B. There are of course limitations. A movie for a home theatre set might not play well (or at all) on your mobile phone. But, as said before, the profiles will make sure that you know this in advance.

Some of the current MPEG-4 available codecs are DivX, XviD and Quicktime. In a recent press release Ahead has stated that it will also bring us a codec that is able to compete with these formats. For audio the best known codec is probably AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), which was also implemented in MPEG-2. However, the MPEG-4 version will likely produce much better results.

 

MPEG-4 might look like the answer to all current problems, but unfortunately it’s not. Microsoft, for example, is still making progress in marketing their Windows Media File format, that’s aimed at about the same market. The Xiph Foundation (Ogg Vorbis) is also aiming to develop a multimedia framework that is license free, while MPEG-4 requires licensees to pay. But the wide adoption by many companies and the current progress makes that MPEG-4 is likely to become the technology of the future and it can’t be stopped! But as always, in the end, the market decides.

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