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AVIPIX
BOPS, Inc - Semiconductor IP for low-power MPEG-4 implementation
Celvibe Ltd.
Cirrus Logic - MPEG-4 AAC
Emuzed - MPEG4 encoder, server and player
EnQuad
Envivio - End to End MPEG-4 Production
ETRI - Interactive Rich Media, an Interactive Contents Authoring System
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
GMV Network - Live MPEG-4 Streaming Server with Real-Time Bandwidth Throttling
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
IBM Research - alphaWorks - MPEG-4 streaming over RTP (real-time)
Improv Systems - Improv Systems programmable MPEG-4 demonstration
iVAST - The Premiere MPEG-4 Rich Media Platform
Luxxon - Adaptive Video and Audio Streaming Technology from Luxxon
Media Excel - Faster-than-real-time MPEG-4 software encoding
Microsoft Research China - SMART Video Streaming using PFGS Technology
mp4cast - MPEG-4 Streaming Solution
MPEGSolutions - The Live Broadcasting System for Wireless Communication Network.
National Taiwan University - MPEG-4 Authoring and Presentation Packages
NewsTakes
Optibase
PacketVideo - PacketVideo MPEG-4 Wireless Multimedia
Philips - Webcine - The MPEG-4 Streaming Solution
Philips - Video Tel & Trimedia MPEG4 Demos
Robert Bosch GmbH - MPEG-4 based Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB)
Sun Microsystems - MPEG-4 streaming
Telecom Italia Lab - Telecom Italia Multimedia
Teleman Multimedia Inc
TriMedia Technologies
Web3D
WebCast Technologies, Inc. - Streaming Video Products Using MPEG-4
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AVIPIX
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AVIPIX provides technology solutions for Audio, Video, Image, and Computer Graphics (PIXels) delivery, streaming, and presentation based on a core of MPEG-4 compliant technologies. Our focus is working with customers to provide customized solutions for any multimedia application. We will show demonstrations of our core set of multimedia technology components including MPEG-4 Video and Audio codecs, media specific encryption and DRM enabling technologies, MP4 file format and content publishing tools, interactive player and authoring tools.
For more information about AVIPIX, please send e-mail to: info@avipix.com.
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BOPS, Inc. - Semiconductor IP for low-power MPEG-4 implementation
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BOPS licenses very low power DSP IP that can be integrated into a customer's low-power, low-cost System-on-a-Chip (SoC). BOPS family of low power DSP IP cores are inherently scalable, allowing customers to select a core with optimal balance of power, cost, and performance for their specific application. As well, all of BOPS low power cores act as multi-thread co-processors to ARM, MIPS, and other industry standard RISC CPUs. As thread co-processors to ARM, complete SoC solutions comprising CPU and BOPS DSP IP provide superior power efficiency and performance headroom compared to single RISC CPU.
The MPEG-4 standard is rapidly gaining acceptance in the wireless PDA and mobile cellular space. Target applications include video encoding and forwarding (video e-mail), video conferencing, and video streaming. BOPS will demonstrate a scalable power efficient MPEG-4 implementation running completely in software at multiple resolutions and bitrates on the Manta processor. Manta is a BOPS enabled chip which is used as a demonstration and development vehicle by BOPS customers. BOPS new MICoRay DSP cores, which were announced on 5/21/01, will further accelerate MPEG-4 processing via specific video imaging codec optimizations. The MICoRay core is a specific implementation of the ManArray architecture optimized for low power, mobile imaging, and mobile video. MICoRay, which delivers an unprecedented 100 MIPS/mW and is available today, benefits from a fully programmable and re-usable architecture which supports a full range of applications including, but not limited to, voice, mobile imaging, video, and gaming. This level of flexibility and re-usability protects customers ASIC investment by extending product life cycle and shortening SoC design cycle.
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Celvibe Ltd.
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Celvibe develops advanced solutions for streaming high-quality live television broadcasts to mobile users. The core technology enables the seamless delivery of rich media content in the most efficient manner by providing wireless carriers with a unique system for delivering live multi-channel video and audio to wireless users in realtime. CelFeed, the flagship product, is a realtime MPEG-4 transcoder and streamer for supplying mobile devices with rich media content based on realtime reception quality. CelFeed handles hundreds of concurrent users with live video channels at once, by converting existing content and compressed streams on the fly. Its unique ability to ‘feel the network’ and dynamically adapt to terminal conditions provides end users with an uninterrupted flow of quality data. Celvibe’s patent-pending solutions consist of realtime encoding for deploying highly compressed streams of live television broadcasts over wireless networks, and realtime transcoding for converting existing video content to MPEG-4. Customers and partners include Telco’s and wireless carriers who are adding packet switch capabilities to their networks, mobile device manufacturers, content providers, application providers and video server manufacturers. In addition to live streaming solutions for the wireless industry, Celvibe develops a powerful line of decoders for quality television broadcasting and desktop video playback.
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Cirrus Logic - MPEG-4 AAC
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As MPEG-4 technology, as a whole, is increasingly inspiring new applications every day, the MPEG-4 audio part, (AAC in particular) has already proven itself in multiple consumer markets. These are, portable players, set-top boxes, and A/V receivers, to name just a few.
In this demonstration we present cost-efficient decoder implementations for the two key MPEG-4 Audio technologies: AAC and TWIN-VQ. These implementations are based on Cirrus Logic's CS493xx System On a Chip (SOC), built around the 24-bit fixed-point proprietory DSP. These SOCs are optimized to interface with various system configurations in all of the aforementioned markets. For example, in this demonstration our AAC decoders will accept/exchange/decode AAC/TWIN-VQ compresed data in both isochronous and asynchronous audio formats. In addition, our decoders can accept the Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) wrapped audio compressed data and perform very precise A/V synchronizaton (within 16 PCM samples).
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Emuzed - MPEG4 encoder, server and player
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Emuzed will be displaying an MPEG-4 encoder server and player with:
•Audio (MPEG-1/2/4, MP3)
•Speech (G.723.1, GSM-AMR, MPEG-4 CELP)
•Video ( H.263, MPEG-4)
•MPEG-4 Systems (DMIF, BIFS)
•Streaming Stacks/Protocols (IETF RT(C)P/RTSP based)
•Optimal algorithm design & realization on various
RISC/DSP/Synchronous/ Asynchronous Media Processor Architectures and Multiple OS platforms
Emuzed is a MPEG and mobile multimedia technologies focused company based
in California . Emuzed addresses the need for standards based streaming of
rich interactive multimedia content (Audio/Video/Synthetic) over the next
generation wireline & wireless access.
Shankar Narayanan
Vice President - Digital Media Technology
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EnQuad
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EnQuad, together with its 22 engineers, scientists and mathematicians has successfully developed the world's first real time MPEG-4 Core Profile encoding solution to compress live video content in real time on a DSP farm platform that can process arbitrarily shaped natural objects to deliver a rich, interactive, broadcast-quality multimedia video experience over networks at a fraction of the bandwidth required by existing technologies while improving video quality.
Our revolutionary technology creates opportunities for quality video to reach the mass market of narrowband and even broadband users, including the promising wireless handset, PDA, PC, satellite and set-top box markets
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Envivio - End to End MPEG-4 Production
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Envivio will demonstrate its three MPEG-4 products: Envivio Broadcast Studio, Envivio Media Server, and EnvivioTV, demonstrating the quality of video, service and powerful simplicity of professional MPEG-4 solutions.
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ETRI - Interactive Rich Media, an Interactive Contents Authoring System
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We present Interactive Rich Media, an interactive multimedia contents authoring system that enables a content creator to produce MPEG-4 contents easily and conveniently. Interactive Rich Media allows a content creator to compose spatially and temporally large number of objects of many different types: audio, rectangular video, arbitrarily shaped video, sill image, text, 2D and 3D graphics, and more. User interactions and hyper-link can be comfortably done through powerful graphic user interface. It produces MPEG-4 contents in the form of mp4 which is a binary format for MPEG-4 contents and/or XMT, a textual format for MPEG4.
In order to help non-professional authors to easily customize and use previously created contents, this presented authoring system is equipped with templates, which are authoring elements customizable and reusable, and for professional authors the methods of manipulating scene trees. Furthermore, it supports arbitrarily shaped video sequence and provides a semi-automatic segmentation tool that can extract the arbitrarily shaped region of interest.
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Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
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An MPEG-4 Audio demonstration which shows a fully functional MPEG-4 Audio
delivery system streaming digital audio content via an IP-based network. To
serve several demands arising from the structure of the Internet as a
distribution channel (varying or unknown bandwidth), an MPEG-4 AAC scalable
object type bitstream is streamed, consisting of a base layer and one or two
enhancement layers. The layers are assigned different priorities for
transmission with the base layer receiving the highest priority. The arrival
of the base layer packets in the decoder is sufficient to decode a useful
signal. Additional decoding of the enhancement layer packets, if available
in time, increases the audio quality in respect of the number of channels
(mono/stereo) and audio bandwidth.
Furthermore, two different technologies to protect the audio content against
illicit use are integrated: Firstly, the bitstream is scrambled, but remains
decodable. While providing a degraded quality as long as being scrambled,
the bitstream can be decoded and played back in a high audio quality if the
correct key is available to the descrambler/decoder. So the service allows
pre-listening as an incentive for the potential customer. Secondly, the
audio materials contain a robust inaudible watermark, which in real-world
application may carry e.g. user identification data. If any legally
purchased copy of the watermarked audio data is distributed illicitly
afterwards, a forensic proof of the initial purchaser is possible.
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GMV Network - Live MPEG-4 Streaming Server with Real-Time Bandwidth Throttling |
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Witness first-hand live MPEG-4 serving technology.
GMV Network will demonstrate an MPEG-4 reflector capable of splitting
and serving live MPEG-4 streams. In addition to demonstrating real-time
streaming from MP4 files, GMV Network will attempt to interoperate with
other exhibitors in an ad hoc manner.
Interoperability will be demonstrated through the use of third-party
encoders and players.
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Hong Kong University of Science & Technology - MPEG-4 Authoring Toolkit
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The Multimedia Technology Research Center (MTrec) is one of the leading research centers in the world engaged in MPEG-4 research for several years designing and building highly efficient tools ranging from video Codec to full-scale mpeg-4 scene authoring environment. In this regard MTrec has built an interactive MPEG-4 Authoring Toolkit for creation and display of full-scale MPEG-4 multimedia scenes. This interactive MPEG-4 Toolkit provides an environment for generating MPEG-4 based multimedia sequences. The MPEG-4 Toolkit is composed of three components: MPEG-4 Scene Editor/Player, Video Encoder and Decoder, and MPEG-4 System. Each component is a separate sub-system working as a stand-alone system. The following are the main features of the Toolkit:
- Runs on Windows 98,
- Graphical Editor for Scene Generation,
- Imports Video, Audio, Text, Graphics Objects,
- Text Scrolling within the Scene,
- Direct Recording of Live Audio/Video in the Scene,
- Simple Video Segmentation,
- More than Real-time high-quality Rate-controlled MPEG-4 Video Encoding,
- Touch Buttons, Time-Sensors and Trajectory Path for Objects,
- Time-Line for Video, Audio and other objects,
- Scene Change-Scene Show,
- Video Streaming from Local Disk,
- Inclusion of MPEG-2 Video in the Scene,
- Automatic BIFS Generation,
- Generate MP4 Files,
- Send MP4 Files to any Recipient or Oplaod to server directly from the Toolkit.
For more information visit: http://www.mtrec.ust.hk
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alphaWorks, IBM Research - MPEG-4 streaming over RTP (real-time) |
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IBM Research demonstrates real-time streaming of MPEG-4 video over RTP. This demonstration features a highly optimized Java decoder able to work on any Java-enabled platform, and real-time encoding capability, using a software-only MPEG-4 video encoder suitable for RTP-based streaming. Both encoder and decoder support the MPEG-4 Video Simple Profile and include special optimizations for enhanced performance and quality.
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Improv Systems - Improv Systems programmable MPEG-4 demonstration |
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Improv Systems will demonstrate a methodology for creating programmable MPEG-4 solutions that can take advantage of the full range of the MPEG-4 specification. This is based upon Improv's configurable JAzz DSP processor technology and instruction set enhancements that accelerate the execution of MPEG-4 native algorithms.
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iVAST - The Premiere MPEG-4 Rich Media Platform |
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iVAST is developing the premiere platform for the creation and delivery of interactive audio, video, 2D and 3D graphics over the broadband Internet. Based on the newly released Moving Pictures Experts Group standard (MPEG-4), iVAST's rich-media platform delivers quality, efficiency, security and economic opportunity to the business of streaming multimedia. Leveraging the explosive growth of broadband connectivity worldwide and dramatic shifts in digital media distribution, iVAST is helping to drive the Internet media revolution and has been at the forefront of the MPEG-4 broadband streaming space since 1998.
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Luxxon - Adaptive Video and Audio Streaming Technology from Luxxon |
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Luxxon Corporation is a leading provider of adaptive streaming media
technology. The company's products include transcoding gateways multimedia
servers and processors that facilitate efficient streaming of any type of
digital video or audio to and from diverse devices including PCs, Web
appliances, PDAs and mobile phones.
Luxxon will be demonstrating the Mediator Streaming System which provides
wireless operators with a comprehensive streaming media solution that
incorporates Luxxon's Mediator Transcoder and Mediator Server. The Mediator
Streaming System enables wireless operators to adapt and deliver streaming
audio and video from content providers to match the available network
bandwidth, provisioning levels and specific display capabilities of an
end-user's device.
Luxxon will also be demonstrating MPEG decoding and encoding on a prototype
of the LUX2 Multimedia Processor which provides device manufacturers with a
flexible, ultra-low power, and high performance solution that enables
streaming video, audio, graphics and games. The LUX2 includes a flexible
multi-codec processor that provides device manufacturers with an adaptive
and high-performance solution capable of encoding and decoding
open-standard-based audio, video and graphic formats, such MPEG-4, MP3, and
MIDI. Wireless handsets and PDAs equipped with the LUX2 will provide
wireless users with the ability to send and receive the widest range of
streaming media content.
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Media Excel - Faster-than-real-time MPEG-4 software encoding |
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With a 733mhz pentium III PC single processor PC, we will demonstrate taking uncompressed video clips of varying duration and compressing them in about 1/5th real-time. We will then use our MPEG-4 decoder (XLPlayer) to play back the image, comparing our output to other vendors software encoded output.
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Microsoft Research China - SMART Video Streaming using PFGS Technology |
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We'll demonstrate the latest development of SMART video streaming using PFGS technologies that is being proposed to MPEG-4 Advanced FGS. SMART video technology is a scalable, efficient and robust video coding and delivery technology that can seamlessly adapt to channel conditions, storage capacity and end user devices. It is significantly more efficient and flexible than the current MPEG-4 FGS.
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mp4cast - MPEG-4 Streaming Solution |
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End-to-end solution for MPEG-4 streaming over IP networks is presented. Authoring tool, server, client and optimized codec libraries are developed to provided integrated platform for building MPEG-4 content service over IP networks.
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MPEGSolutions - The Live Broadcasting System for Wireless Communication Network. |
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The Live Broadcasting System for Wireless Communication Network has a 3-tier structure: Encoding Server, Streaming Server and Client Terminal. The Encoding Server encodes the multimedia AV data using MPEG-4 Standard and transmits the encoded bit-stream to the Streaming Server. (There can be more than one Encoding Server for a Streaming Server.) The Streaming Server uses RTP(Real-time Transport Protocol) payload formats to carry each of MPEG-4 Audio and MPEG-4 Video bit-streams. Lastly, Client terminals (such as wireless PDA or IMT2000 terminal) equipped with MPEG-4 AV decoder deliver the multimedia contents to clients.
In our system, Simple or Simple Scalable Profile for Video and Speech Profile for Audio are used for the MPEG-4 AV CODEC specifications.
The most distinctive features of our system are low-delay over wireless network and low-complexity.
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National Taiwan University - MPEG-4 Authoring and Presentation Packages |
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MPEG-4 technology is comprised of the most advanced coding and presentation tools. It enables a large amount of applications. In the exhibition, we present two integrated MPEG-4-compliant systems: a scene and object authoring system, and a DirectShow-based player. In our design, content providers can produce and edit their contents by using the proposed authoring system, while end-users can install the player software to get the edited contents shown. We provide some applicable examples in the demonstration: an interactive TV, a visual gallery, and a personal Karaoke room. Besides, we also present two prototypes of coding tools: a near real-time FGS video decoder and a simple face decoder. The two coding tools will be integrated to our systems in the near future. These packages are partial results of the project ¡§MPEG-4 Hybrid-Media Virtual Environment¡§ sponsored by National Science Council and Cyberlink Corporation under Contact No.89-2622-E-002-013.
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NewsTakes |
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NewsTakes is a pioneer in repurposing and delivery of media-rich content
(video, audio, text, graphics and images) to WAP and Internet devices,
including hand-held and desktop PCs, mobile phones, PDAs, and set-top boxes,
from the same content base and in real-time, while maintaining the integrity
of the original content. For example, NewsTakes service would automatically
reshape a video feed to accommodate the display and bandwidth capabilities
of any of these devices without human intervention, ranging from full-motion
video and audio down to a "slide show" of graphics with accompanying audio
or text.
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Optibase |
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Optibase (Nasdaq: OBAS) is a leading provider of media gateway solutions that bridge the gap between the digital broadcasting domain and IP broadband networks. These gateways provide critical technology for the transmission of video, audio and data for applications such as interactive TV, e-learning, business TV, video enhanced e-commerce, and WebTV.
Optibase will demonstrate MPEG-4 servers, which allows real-time encoding and streaming of MPEG-4 video and AAC audio over IP networks. The demo will feature an end-to end solution for content creation and animation tool, encoding, streaming and playback together with [vizrt] - a world leader in providing enterprise level content management and creation tools to the broadcast industry. [vizrt] is demonstrating it's real time content creation and animation tool viz [modeling] streaming it's content via Optibase's server to another PC with Optibase video and audio decoders and [vizrt]'s own MPEG-4 client renderer. The end-to end system allows all updates to be streamed live, so any changes and edits the artist makes will appear in the client PC.
Optibase's continuing development with [vizrt] will allow broadcasters to use their on-air graphics simultaneously with their MPEG-4 streams- creating once and delivering many different ways.
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PacketVideo - PacketVideo MPEG-4 Wireless Multimedia |
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PacketVideo, the recognized leader in wireless multimedia, provides MPEG-4 compliant software that enables the delivery, management and viewing of one-and two-way video, audio and multimedia applications over current wireless networks to mobile devices such as telephones and personal digital assistants. PacketVideo’s pioneering end-to-end solutions delivers the highest quality multimedia experience possible in every mobile environments, globally. The company markets its software to wireless operators, wireless device and silicon manufacturers, and content providers to ultimately enable mobile consumers to access a variety of applications, including news and financial stories, music videos, weather and traffic reports, and home or work security cameras, from any location. Mobile consumers can gain access to multimedia content today by visiting PV PVAirguide™ (www.pvairguide.com), the world’s first wireless streaming media showcase. To learn more, visit www.pv.com.
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Philips - WebCine - The MPEG-4 Streaming Solution |
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Philips offers WebCine, an end-to-end MPEG-4 solution for advanced Internet streaming.
Philips' WebCine brings the interoperability and enhanced quality of the MPEG-4 standard
to IP networks, allowing streaming to extend beyond computers to emerging wireless
and broadband consumer platforms.
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Philips - Video Tel & Trimedia MPEG4 Demos
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VIDEO TEL
The VideoTel from "Call Image" provides video screen phone functionality combined with the newest in Internet Appliance application features like high-quality streaming audio and video and internet browsing. This product uses the Philips TriMedia processor to handle networking stacks, streaming media formats like MPEG4, and video conferencing standards like H.263.
TRIMEDIA MPEG4 DEMO
The Philips TriMedia MPEG4 decoder allows for various bit-rates and picture qualities while showing implementation of high-quality MPEG4 decoding on a standard TriMedia reference design card.
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Robert Bosch GmbH - MPEG-4 based Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB)
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The new MPEG-4 based DMB-system offers multimedia information with an excellent audio- and video quality to the mobile society. The combination of real-time MPEG-4 encoding and decoding with the DAB-standard (Digital Audio Broadcasting) enables for the first time a distortion free TV reception in fast moving vehicles.
Although the real-time MPEG-4 encoder and decoder were originally designed for a DAB/DMB transmission network using a channel data rate of 1.5 Mbit/s, nevertheless an integration within a satellite based radio broadcast system is conceivable.
The outstanding features of the encoder are its modularity and expandability. The processing of live input or stored audio and video signals is done in two different subsystems using SMP-Linux. The demanding MPEG-4 algorithms are processed on three Pentium III processors with 800 Mhz, a fourth is used for stream multimplexing.
The decoder system consists of two separate CPUs, both using Windows NT as operating system, within a compact-PCI housing. One CPU demultiplexes the transport stream and delivers the packetized audio and video elementary streams to the corresponding real-time decoders. The AAC-encoded audio data is decoded and presented by a DSP-based audio board. The MPEG-4 video stream is decoded by CPU according to the ACE-Profile. Finally the post-processing algorithm and the composition task are performed.
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Sun Microsystems - MPEG-4 streaming
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MPEG-4 streaming from Solaris and Linux servers to PC and Set-top box clients using RTP/RTSP protocols.
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Telecom Italia Lab - Telecom Italia Multimedia
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Telecom Italia Multimedia works with various technologies to provide services and products that will help create the future.
We work extensively with MPEG-4 technology, as well as Interactive TV, virtual avatars and other multimedia solutions.
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Teleman Multimedia Inc |
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Teleman Multimedia Inc. has created a highly optimized and feature rich digital video processor for MPEG-4 and H.263 video. The DRMD (Dynamically Re-configurable Multiple Data path: trademark of Teleman Multimedia, Inc. – pronounced “DReaMeD”) Processor provides superior performance compared to any general purpose CPUs or even DSPs that have been applied to digital video encoding and decoding. This video codec is capable of duplex encoding and decoding of MPEG-4 and H.263 video data at a rate of 30fps real time at CIF resolution. It incorporates a Color LCD controller that directly drives various LCD panels. The DRMD system is ideal for cellular phone applications where low power and high performance is a requirement. Teleman is currently offering this design as a synthesizable core to the SOC market and will be producing .18um geometry chip in Q3 of 2001.
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TriMedia Technologies |
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Trimedia, will show its core technology (IP design for video processing cores) and how they are enhancing the design process for digital video devices.
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Web3D Consortium |
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The Web3D Consortium is a non-profit organization with a mandate to develop and promote open standards to enable 3D Web and broadcast applications. The Consortium successfully gained approval for VRML97 as International Standard ISO/IEC 14772 in December 1997 and is currently driving the X3D project to develop an extensible 3D capability with XML to fully integrate 3D graphics into the fabric of the World Wide Web. The Consortium is comprised of many leading corporations and academic institutions including charter members such as 3Dlabs, ATI Technologies, Sony Electronics, US Army STRICOM, US Navy Postgraduate School and SGDL Systems. There are also over 60 individual Professional Members contributing their expertise to Consortium activities. The Web3D Consortium is an active member of MPEG-4. Web3D Consortium members provide technical and marketing expertise for the continued evolution of Open 3D Standards while gaining early access to ongoing technology and commercial opportunities. More information on VRML, the Consortium's ongoing X3D and VRML standards activities, and Consortium membership may be found at www.web3d.org.
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WebCast Technologies, Inc. - Streaming Video Products Using MPEG-4 |
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In this exhibition, WebCast Technologies will demonstrate a set of streaming video products based on MPEG-4, including a real-time software video encoder, a streaming video server, a software video player, and a video format converter. The products are based on MPEG-4 video Advanced Simple Profile and Fine Granularity Scalable Profile. It will be shown that, using MPEG-4, VHS video quality can be achieved at bitrate as low as 300kbps and smooth streaming video can be delivered with large channel bandwidth variations. The video format converter can be used to convert existing video contents from many different formats, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, and ASF, to MPEG-4.
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