The time is 1:13 a.m. and the radio barks out ten-codes about a robbery: One man is down and the perpetrators are fleeing the scene by car. Law enforcement launches an aerial search, which moves from ...

Figure 4b shows that an MPEG-4 encoder can handle the graphic instructions directly so that the rendering engine is actually in the MPEG-4 decoder. Once the appearance of objects is established in the ...

MPEG-4 is fast becoming the most common protocol for video compression due to its ability to handle multimedia over varying bandwidth conditions. Implementing the MPEG-4 Simple Profile compression ...

Digital video currently follows the MPEG-2 standard, but improvements in image processing technology are set to move MPEG-4 to the forefront of video compression. Millions of DVD disks, satellite ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

Coming so soon after MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 raises a number of questions. Will it replace MPEG-2? Does it make existing equipment obsolete? How does it affect the broadcast industry? To answer ...