Newsletter February 2002, Issue 52
Published by Sonaris Consulting, Felix Bopp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- MPEG-4: Philips MP4Net, Become a MPEG-4 "Expert" in 6 Hours, Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard, Extensible MPEG-4 Textual Format (XMT)
- Worth reading: Babies learn in their sleep
- Extra-Audionary: Soundtrack Express
- Awards: The Canadian New Media Awards, Prix Ars Electronica 2002
- For Musicians: LIVE
- Music Business Angels
- Conferences & Events
MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). MPEG-4 combines streaming audio, video, and graphics with interactivity. It supports computers, consumer appliances, and mobile devices.
MPEG-4 is an open international standard with multiple suppliers. Standardized technological elements are enabled to integrate the production, distribution and content access paradigms of three fields:
a) Digital television
b) Interactive graphics applications (synthetic content)
c) Interactive multimedia (World Wide Web, distribution of and access to content)
Philips MP4Net
Philips MP4Net offers MPEG-4 products to create and deliver streaming audio, video, and graphics content over today’s Internet as well as emerging broadband and mobile IP networks.
http://www.mpeg-4.philips.com
Become a MPEG-4 "Expert" in 6 Hours
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 of technical and practical intelligence in the key subject areas of MPEG-4 technology.
All shows are available on-demand for streaming or for (MP3) downloading.
http://www.m4if.org/streaming/index.html
M4IF encourages licensors and their representatives to engage in the discussion with the rest of the MPEG-4 community. "I am confident that licensors, many of them M4IF members, are ready to listen to the arguments before the licensing details are finalized", said Koenen. "This benefits all. Both licensors and licensees want MPEG-4 to succeed, and thus both require reasonable licensing in all markets."
The open discussion list is at discuss@lists.m4if.org
Anyone can subscribe at http://www.m4if.org/public/publiclistreg.html
Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard
http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm
Extensible MPEG-4 Textual Format (XMT)
XMT allows the content authors to exchange their content with other authors, tools or service providers, and facilitates interoperability with both the X3D, developed by the Web3D consortium, and the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) from the W3C consortium.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM2000/ep/michelle
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Babies learn in their sleep
By Alison Motluk
Source: New Scientist
Students should be jealous - not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they have also mastered the art of learning in their sleep.
By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake.
To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds - one that sounds like "oo", another like "ee", and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between. EEG recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish between the sounds.
Full article at:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991887
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Soundtrack Express
Soundtrack Express is a secure digital music source. Search, preview, and download tracks from the Soundtrack Express music catalog.
Soundtrack Express features thousands of music tracks from established artists and online media management tools designed to assist in the management of your media projects.
http://www.soundtrackexpress.com