movmasty
25th March 2002, 05:01
EETimes has an interesting article that covers various aspects of video encoding and the future plans of video encoding. While some companies are claiming that MPEG's block-encoding mechanism is nearing its end, some companies are still pursuing further improvements to the MPEG format (whether it is MPEG-2 or MPEG-4). One of the most interesting future plans is the joint process with MPEG team and ITU (International Telecommunication Union) to join their technologies and produce a new variant for MPEG-4, MPEG-4 part 10. Group claims that they get the standard ready by end of this year and that the standard would improve coding efficiency by 50 percent.
http://www.cd-rw.org/news/archive/2740.cfm
http://www.cd-rw.org/news/archive/2740.cfm