MPEG Framework - towards unified multimedia [40 mn de lecture - paru le 8/26/2004 4:41:15 PM - Public : Confirmé]

Auteur

Pierre-Alexandre PAGÈS Elève-Ingénieur Supinfo Paris Promotion SUPINFO 2004    Lui écrire    Tous les projets de cet auteur    Le mini-CV de cet auteur

Abstract

This document proposes a journey recalling the whole history of the MPEG group, since the circumstances having brought to its creation, until its most recent achievements. All the produced standards is presented in details, then a reflexion is carried out, bearing on the future of multi-media industries and the evolution of their economic models.

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Presentation of the MPEG group in a historical context
• 1.1. Premises
• 1.2. The analogical era
• 1.3. The digital era
• 1.4. Context having brought to the creation of the MPEG


• 2. MPEG-1
• 2.1. Overall picture
• 2.2. Video part of the standard - the single CPS
• 2.3. Audio part of the standard - the three layers
• 2.4. System part of the standard - the multiplexer


• 3. MPEG-2
• 3.1. Overall picture - HDTV
• 3.2. Video part of the standard - the profiles
• 3.3. Audio part of the standard - improvements and AAC
• 3.4. System part of the standard - TS and PS streams


• 4. MPEG-4
• 4.1. Motivations and application fields
• 4.2. System part - scene composition
• 4.3. Visual part - natural and synthetic video objects
• 4.4. Audio part - broad range of codecs and synthetic audio


• 5. MPEG-7 and MPEG-21
• 5.1. MPEG-7 - multimedia content decription
• 5.2. MPEG-21 - complete handling of the multimedia chain
• 5.3. Other work of the group


• 6. The MPEG controversy


• Conclusion