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

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11N
MPEG99
July 1999 - Vancouver

Main results of Vancouver meeting

MPEG-1

1. The corrigendum has been approved. The activity is closed

MPEG-2

1. Progression of some two Amendments and one Corrigendum.

MPEG-4

1. Part 5 (Reference Software) of MPEG-4 version 1 has been approved as a FDIS.
2. Part 4 (Conformance Testing) of MPEG-4 version 1 has been approved as a FCD.
3. Deutsche Telekom and HHI have donated a real time software MPEG-4 Video decoder (in executable form) for use within IM1.
4. The following Video verification tests have been carried out
   • MPEG-4 Temporal Scalability in Core Profile;
   • Advanced Coding Efficiency ACE (former Main Plus) Profile In Version 2;
   • MPEG-4 Advanced Real Time Simple Profile (Error Robustness, Temporal Resolution Stability);
   • MPEG-4 Coding Efficiency for Low and Medium Bit rates
5. Parts 1, 2, 3, 6 of MPEG-4 version 2 have been promoted to FCD (formally FPDAM) level.
6. MPEG-4 Audio version 2 verification tests wikll be carried out in December 1999
7. IBM has donated an MPEG-4 prototype authoring tool for use by MPEG members.

MPEG-7

1. A new version of the MPEG-7 XM (eXperimentation Model) has been produced
2. Several Core Experiment documents have been produced
3. A first version of the DDL (Description Definition Language) has been produced

Others

1. A new Group "Multimedia Description Scheme (MDS)" has been established
2. The Systems and Delivery groups have been combined
3. Future MPEG meetings will be held at

• Melbourne, VIC, AU (Oct. 1999)
• Maui, HI, US (Nov. '99)
• Noordwijkerhout, NL (Mar. 00)
• CN (Jul. 00)
• FR (Oct. 00).