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
February 1998 - San Jose

Main results of San Jose meeting

MPEG-2

• Approval of report of AAC tests. The goal of achieving high quality at a bitrate of 64 kbit/s per channel as a task from July 1993 for the ‘NBC Enquiry’ has been successfully achieved.

MPEG-4

1. The MPEG-4 Committee Drafts approved in Fribourg have been thoroughly studied in a move aimed at simplifying the ballots of National Bodies.
2. Approval of the "MPEG-4 Applications" Document
3. Approval of the "MPEG-4 Requirements" Document
4. The Call for Proposals for an MPEG-4 Intermedia Format has yielded a set of high-quality proposals from:
   1. Apple Computer - IBM Corporation - Netscape Communication Corporation - Oracle Corporation - Silicon Graphics - Sun Microsystems
   2. AT&T - Columbia University
   3. AVID Technologies
   4. EBU/SMPTE Task Force
   5. Microsoft - Intel
   6. Thomson Multimedia
   Collaborative work is under way to develop a single solution satisfying the MPEG-4 requirements.
5. The MPEG-4 Systems ver. 2 standard will provide the following system-level functionalities:
   1. Advanced BIFS
   2. Intellectual Property Management support
   3. AAVS (Adaptive Audio-Visual System) support, i.e. the ability to animate MPEG-4 ver. 1.0 compositions
   4. Intermedia Format

MPEG-7

• Approval of the "MPEG-7 Applications" Document
• Approval of the "MPEG-7 Requirements" Document
• Approval of the "MPEG-7 Context and Objectives" Document
• Approval of the first draft of the MPEG-7 "Proposal Package Description"

Others

• Future MPEG meetings will be held at

- Tokyo, JP (Mar. '98)
- Dublin, IE (Jul. '98),
- Princeton, NJ (Oct 98)
- Eilat (Dec. '98)
- KR (Mar. '99)
- US (Nov. '99).