Streaming Media, Inc. and the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF - www.m4if.org) together present a special six-episode series, "MPEG-4 Technology and Applications" on streamingmedia.com's Hands-On talk show.

Join M4IF president and ISO MPEG Requirements Group Chair Rob Koenen and host Bill Bernat, co-author of Streaming Media Research's MPEG-4: The Impact of the Open Standard on the Future of Digital Media, along with several of the world's leading MPEG-4 experts for an hour each week of technical and practical intelligence in the key subject areas of MPEG-4 technology.

All shows will be live at 17:00 UTC/GMT (9:00 AM PST). They will also be available on-demand for streaming or for (MP3) downloading..

January 8, 2002: Systems		Complete
Speakers:	Carsten Herpel, Rob Koenen, Yuval Fisher
Topics:	Binary Format for Scene description (BIFS) Object Descriptor Framework flexmux DMIF interface
Perhaps the least understood part of the standard, systems may be the most important and is surely the most innovative. Find out what it is and why it matters.
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January 15, 2002: Visual		Complete
Speakers:	Klaus Diepold, Touradj Ebrahimi, Rob Koenen, Weiping Li
Topics:	Compression Techniques Object Types Profiles Levels Other
It's about more - much more - than just interoperable rectangular streaming video, which itself has landscape-shaking potential.
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January 22, 2002: Audio		Complete
Speakers:	Bernhard Grill, Rob Koenen, Schuyler Quackenbush, Brane Zivkovic
Topics:	Multichannel natural audio Synthetic audio Voice codecs Audio scenes Multilingual objects Complexity units SAOL
With its complexity units and many advanced algorithms, it's not your father's audio compression.
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January 29, 2002: Conformance and Interoperability		Complete
Speakers:	Jean-Claude Dufourd, Rob Koenen, Ralph Neff, Fernando Pereira
Topics:	Conformance Interoperability Interoperability points Profiles Levels Interoperabilty tests
The brilliance of MPEG-4 will not be realized without a healthy mixture of competition and cooperation amongst vendors. (Profiles & Levels included!)
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February 5, 2002: DRM (IPMP) Today and in the Future		Complete
Speakers:	Rob Koenen, Jack Lacy, Peter Schirling, Craig Schultz
Topics:	What is currently in MPEG-4? What are the extensions about? What is the relation with MPEG-2 and MPEG-21? (and 7)?
If you can't make money, what's the point? Protect your content and manage your rights.
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February 12, 2002: XMT & Authoring		Complete
Speakers:	Olivier Avaro, Brendan Kavanagh, Michelle Kim, Rob Koenen
Topics:	Textual Format, Authoring MP4
Yes, Virginia, there is a text-based scene description language for MPEG-4 and, yes, authoring can be done in tools, too.
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