MPEG-4 is an emerging choice for the converging world of digital video. MPEG-4 is a new standard providing core technologies for efficient storage, transmission and manipulation of video and audio data in multimedia environments.

The standard is developed by the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) of the ISO, who also introduced the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards.

The primary goal of MPEG-4 is to provide an open standard facilitating responses to changing requirements of current and future multimedia applications. MPEG-4 has been developed in response to the growing interest of consumer electronic industries, telecommunication companies, broadcasters and computer enterprises as a new standard for the coding of audiovisual information in multimedia environments. Therefore MPEG-4 covers a wide range of applications, bit-rates, resolutions, qualities and services. This makes MPEG-4 the ideal format for media delivery over different types of transmission or storage technologies.

There are a multitude of applications for an MPEG-4 standard including broadcast, internet video, interactive video games, infotainment applications, interactive storage media, content based image and video databases, real time video communications (videoconferencing, videophone), mobile multimedia, digital television set-top boxes, studio and TV postproduction and many others.

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Envivio.com Inc.
Envivio is the leader in MPEG-4 streaming solutions for the broadcast, cable network, and content developer markets, developing products specifically designed to solve both technology and business issues for those markets. The company's mission is to be the dominant supplier of MPEG-4 solutions to the professional media industry.

dicas
dicas is the leading developer of MPEG-4 real-time video coding solutions delivering to both the end-user market as well as the high-end, professional sector of the broadcast and multimedia industry.

More MPEG-4 links:

MPEG-4 Industry Forum

Official Home Page of Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG)

Other MPEG-4 vendors:

PacketVideo

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