[M4IF Discuss] Slashdot discussion of Salon article

[Mikael Bourges-Sevenier]

Compression is one thing but you know that other codecs can perform
better (see video results of last July meeting). There are many other
things that MPEG-4 Video provides ranging from object coding to scalable
streams, fine grain scalability etc...
Personnally, I always thought about MPEG-4 as being a truly multimedia
standard where synthetic and natural objects can be mixed together and
you can interact with them. Restricting it to just audio and video is
comparing it to 'de facto' standards that already do similar things very
well for a quite a long time such as Microsoft, Real, Apple. So, "cold
data" from their applications could be a way to start.
But later on, when we'll move to MPEG-4 as a whole, you might want to
look at data from "web interactive" industry from companies such as
Macromedia, Cycore, Viewpoint...
Best,
Mike
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> Mikael,
> 
>     Because MPEG-4 isn't being targeted at the things that 
> MPEG-2 and MP3 do well.  Discounting all the Systems stuff, 
> MPEG-4 offers huge compression efficiency advantages.
> 
> Ben Waggoner
> Interframe Media <http://www.interframemedia.com>
> Digital Video Compression Consulting, Training, and Encoding
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> on 3/8/02 1:46 PM, Mikael Bourges-Sevenier at 
> mikael   sevenier.com wrote:
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> > Why don't we start with mp3, mpeg-2, etc.? They might cover many 
> > situations where MPEG-4 can be used?
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