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MPEG-4 will transform Internet-based multimedia by delivering breakthrough video and audio quality, flexibility, and control. Now, there's a complete guide to MPEG-4 for everyone who wants to take advantage of it, from Internet media programmers to senior decision-makers. In MPEG-4 Jump-Start, two leaders of the Internet multimedia community introduce every aspect of the MPEG-4 standard: its fundamental concepts, capabilities, applications, requirements, limitations, and more. Walk through everything you need to know to start working with MPEG-4 today, from installing players and finding content, to creating and distributing your own content. Understand the underlying technical capabilities of MPEG-4 from a programmer's perspective, and learn why it represents a breakthrough solution for any networked environment -- Web, satellite, or even wireless.
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The "get started" developer's guide to MPEG-4, the future of Internet and Web multimedia!
MPEG-4 will transform Internet- and Web-based multimedia by enabling breakthrough audio, video, 2D, and 3D capabilities. This book is for every developer and technical decision-maker. In MPEG-4 Jump-Start, two leaders of the Internet multimedia community introduce the MPEG-4 standard: its key concepts, capabilities, applications, requirements, and limitations. Aaron E. Walsh and Mikael Bourges-Sevenier cover what you need to know to start developing MPEG-4 players and content today, including:
- How MPEG-4 builds on the success of the MPEG standards that enabled CDs, DVDs, and MP3
- MPEG-4's underlying technical capabilities and requirements
- 2D/3D scene composition and the MPEG-4 Binary Format for Scenes (BIFS)
- MPEG-4 techniques for facial and body animation
- New compression methods for 3D meshes
- XMT: The XML-based textual format for storing MPEG-4 contents and authoring commands
MPEG-4 offers unprecedented opportunities for delivering media in any networked communications environment—Internet, Web, broadcast, satellite, or even wireless. MPEG-4 Jump-Start gives you specific, insider's techniques for building tomorrow's breakthrough media applications—starting right now.
Every Jump-Start book is:
AUTHORITATIVE written by world-class experts personally involved with the design and development of that technology FOCUSED providing exactly what you need to know to get started immediately with minimum effort PRACTICAL teaching you the skills and techniques that you need to develop professional, real-world software applications
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