INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION
ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11
CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11N
MPEG98
October 1998 - Atlantic City

Main results of Atlantic City meeting

 

MPEG-2

  1. The conformance testing of DSM-CC (part 10 of MPEG-2) has been finally approved and sent to ISO.

MPEG-4

  1. Version 1 of MPEG-4 Systems (part 1), Visual (part 2), Audio (part 3) and DMIF (part 6) have been finally approved. The Reference Software (part 5) will be approved at the March 1999 meeting to give sufficient time to align the software to the textual parts of the standard. The Conformance Testing (part 4) is still under development
  2. Because of its proven maturity the Intellectual Property Management and Protection was introduced in version 1
  3. Several real-time implementations of MPEG-4 applications were demonstrated at the meeting
  4. The "Speech" and "Audio on Internet" verification tests have been successfully completed.
  5. A new workplan for MPEG-4 Verification Tests has been approved
    Date Verification test
    December 1998 meeting Video error resilience
    Scalability step 1
    March 1999 meeting Content-based video coding
    Scalability step 2
  6. A collaboration with IETF was started to achieve optimised carriage of MPEG-4 objects on RTP
  7. New Working Drafts of the four parts of MPEG-4 version 2 standard has been approved.

MPEG-7

  1. The MPEG-7 Call for Proposals has been published

Others

  1. Future MPEG meetings will be held at