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ISO Standardisation - Multimedia data format
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11 - Official MPEG Committee website
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC in
charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression,
processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their
combination.
http://drogo.cselt.stet.it/mpeg/
MPEG Systems - http://garuda.imag.fr/MPEG4/
MPEG-4 Systems is a subgroup of MPEG in charge of the development of
tools to support the coded representation of the combination of streamed
elementary audiovisual information in the form of natural or synthetic,
audio or visual, 2D and 3D objects within the context of content-based
access for digital storage media, digital audiovisual communication and
other applications.
MPEG Video Group Webpage - http://bs.hhi.de/mpeg-video/
MPEG-7 documents and links at Starlab, Brussels - http://www.mpeg-7.com/docs.html
MPEG-4 Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Coding (SNHC) - http://www.es.com/mpeg4-snhc/
MPEG Audio Group - http://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/project/mpeg/audio/
MPEG-4 Structured Audio / SAOL - http://sound.media.mit.edu/~eds/mpeg4
Audio & Multimedia (AMM) Technology Information at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Institute
http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/techinf/index.html
Information about audio coding schemes and related technologies developed
by Fraunhofer IIS-A
ITU-T Standardisation - Communication Protocols
A Primer on the T.120 Series Standard - http://www.lotus.com/products/sametime.nsf/standards/8DDB25B6C08E70E5852566640072FCD2
The T.120 standard contains a series of communication and application
protocols and services that provide support for real-time, multipoint data
communications. These multipoint facilities are important building blocks
for a whole new range of collaborative applications, including desktop
data conferencing, multi-user applications, and multi-player gaming.
Multipoint Communication Service (MCS) - T.122, T.125; Transport Stacks
- T.123; Generic Conference Control (GCC) - T.124; Generic Application
Template (GAT) - T.121; Still Image Exchange and Annotation (SI) - T.126;
Multipoint Binary File Transfer - T.127.
Future standards T.130 - Audio-visual Control For Multimedia Conferencing.
Key H.323 Terms - http://www.databeam.com/h323/h323primer.html
http://www.lotus.com/products/sametime.nsf/standards/990659885029C94E85256664007300E9
H.323 is an umbrella recommendation from the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) that sets standards for multimedia communications over Local
Area Networks (LANs) that do not provide a guaranteed Quality of Service
(QoS). The H.323 standard provides a foundation for audio, video, and data
communications across IP-based networks, including the Internet.
H.323 is part of a larger series of communications standards that enable
videoconferencing across a range of networks. Known as H.32X, this series
includes H.320 and H.324, which address ISDN and PSTN communications, respectively.
IETF Standardisation - Communication Protocols
Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for Large-scale Multicast Applications
by P. Bagnall, B. Briscoe, A. Poppitt. - RFC2729. - ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2729.txt
The intention of this memo is to define a classification system for
the communication requirements of any large-scale multicast application
(LSMA). It is very unlikely one protocol can achieve a compromise between
the diverse requirements of all the parties involved in any LSMA. It is
therefore necessary to understand the worst-case scenarios in order to
minimize the range of protocols needed. Dynamic protocol adaptation is
likely to be necessary which will require logic to map particular combinations
of requirements to particular mechanisms. Standardizing the way that
applications define their requirements is a necessary step towards this.
Classification is a first step towards standardization.
H. Schulzrinne, A. Rao, R. Lanphier. Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP).
- RFC2326. April 1998
Open standard aims to provide an extensible framework to enable controlled
delivery of real-time data, such as audio and video.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2326.txt
Caching Support in Standards-based RTSP/RTP Servers by Jay Geagan, Mike
Kellner, Alagu Periyannan - http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-periyannan-rtsp-caching-00.txt
This document presents the issues facing streaming media caching. It
proposes a set of mechanisms to enable streaming media caching between
standards-based RTSP/RTP servers and proxies. Streaming media caching refers
to the process through which streaming content is dynamically replicated
closer to users so as to provide a better viewing experience. A list of
RTSP ehancements and open issues are presented. This document is intended
to be a starting point for discussion between various parties interested
in standardizing the mechanism used by RTSP/RTP servers to enable streaming
media caching.
IP Multicast Applications: Challenges and Solutions by Stardust.com's
Bob Quinn and Kevin Almeroth
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-mcast-apps-01.txt
Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts by D. Zigmond,
M. Vickers
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zigmond-tv-url-04.txt
World-Wide Web browsers are starting to appear on a variety of consumer
electronic devices, such as television sets and television set-top boxes,
which are capable of receiving television programming from either terrestrial
broadcast, satellite broadcast, or cable. In this context there is a need
to reference television broadcasts using the URI format described in [RFC
2396]. This document describes a widely-implemented URI scheme to refer
to such broadcasts.
Stream URI Scheme by F. Kenji, K. Shinobu, T. Tsuyoshi
This document describes the Stream Uniform Resource Identifier which
allows Internet clients to have direct access to multimedia streams.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fujikawa-stream-uri-00.txt
IETF Working Group producing relevant to Multicast and Streaming Internet Drafts
Multimedia Metadata format and Markup language
Synchronized Multimedia: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL).
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
W3C Recommendation: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
1.0 Specification - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil
This subset of XML (Extensible Markup Language) enables synchronisation
of multimedia elements (video, sound, still images. text). SMIL (pronounced
"smile") streams multiple movies, still images, and sound separately but
co?rdinates their timing.
MPEG-7 the content representation standard for multimedia information search, filtering, management and processing. - http://drogo.cselt.stet.it/mpeg/standards/mpeg-7/mpeg-7.htm
CEN/ISSS Workshop on Metadata for Multimedia Information - Dublin Core
(MMI DC) - http://www.cenorm.be/isss/Workshop/MMI-DC/Default.htm
Workshop Objective: To promote the development, implementation and
application of standardised metadata schemes, specifically including current
and future Dublin Core standards.
CEN/ISSS Workshop on MMI (Metadata for Multimedia Information) - http://www.cenorm.be/isss/Workshop/MMI/Default.htm
Produced documents: Model for Metadata for Multimedia Information;
Requirements for Metadata for Multimedia Information.
Television and the Web - http://www.w3.org/TV
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMPTE Standards, Recommended Practice and Engineering Guidlines - http://www.smpte.org/stds/index.html
VoiceXML Forum recently announced it has completed the VoiceXML
1.0 specification, which is expected to expand the reach of the Internet
by providing voice access to content and services.
http://www.voicexml.org/specs_1.html