MPEG-4

[kitty]

An ISO/IEC standard 14496 developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the committee that also developed MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. These standards made interactive video on CD-ROM, DVD and Digital Television possible. MPEG-4 is the result of another international effort involving hundreds of researchers and engineers from all over the world. MPEG-4 was finalized in October 1998 and became an International Standard in 1999. The fully backward compatible extensions under the title of MPEG-4 Version 2 were frozen at the end of 1999, to acquire the formal International Standard Status early in 2000. Several extensions were added since and work on some specific work-items is still in progress.

MPEG-4 builds on the proven success of three fields:

Digital television
Interactive graphics applications (synthetic content)
Interactive multimedia (World Wide Web, distribution of and access to content)

More information about MPEG-4 can be found at MPEG’s home page

[Alienzz]

And the point from this post is?

[kitty]

It's a glossary entry dude

[dbaker6165]

I think its just an FYI. Its kinda cool to know more about the tools you use to copy movies and music dont you think

[The village idiot]

And the point from this post is?

Aaaaaaaa, so you can know what the definition is?

[Alienzz]

oops thats the glossary forum. I have to get used to these forums again. It's been few years since my last post although I registered recently. Errr lost my old user and pass.

[dcsos]

I have Quick Time Pro 6 on PC and It makes a file called MPEG-4... However this won't play on the media player.
The Medial Player has many types of MPEG-4 from what I unerstand. But none of these will play in the quick time player..
Why isn't MPEG-4 crossplatform like MPEG-2?

Types of sorta MPEG-4 on windows:
Microsoft V1 codec, V2, V3 is there more?..comes out .WMV extension
.ASF or advanced streaming format some kinda mpeg-4
and .AVI wrapper for DIVX and other forms of MPEG-4
none of these will play on a MAC unless you install the windows media player, and even then its a challenge!

On MAC MPEG 4 is output export from QUICKTIME PRO 6..but at a maximum frame size of 320x240? is this really so?

[BJ_M]

QT can also output other types of video files which are not based on mpeg4 (just to confuse things more) ..