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New license for MPEG-4 Toolkit allows developers to provide client-side video support
San Francisco, CA (October 24, 2003) - IBM has released a commercial license for version 1.1 of its MPEG-4 video and audio toolkit to allow developers to start building more interactive, high performance Java-based multimedia applications that incorporate both text, graphics, audio and video.
Based on open-standards, MPEG-4 applications stream at a higher resolution quality over lower bandwidths using any browser, allowing features such as subtitles to be more easily readable. IBM established a technical leadership role in developing the XMT standard on which MPEG-4 was built and is the first company to develop and implement a toolkit using XMT. IBM research labs around the world have contributed to the MPEG-4, including groups in Yorktown, NY, Haifa, Israel and Tokyo, Japan.
The Toolkit, available on IBM's alphaWorks site (www.alphaWorks.ibm.com), provides a standards-compliant cross-platform solution for the creation and playback of MPEG-4 content as well as the development of MPEG-4 based applications such as an interactive TV presentation. While a news program is streaming, for example, a user can click on other parts of the screen to obtain information on stock, weather and other information. Other demos of MPEG-4 applications can be viewed at: http://www.research.ibm.com/mpeg4
The streaming media market is estimated to generate $20 billion in revenue by 2008. (published in VideoSystems, March 2001). Since the release of the technology on the alphaWorks, the MPEG-4 Toolkit has generated requests from developers wishing to build applications using open standards for providing client-side video support. Droplets, Inc., a New York-based ISV that offers a universal interface server with GUI components, plans to incorporate the code from the MPEG-4 Applet into their Droplets Client as a custom component using its API.
"I was extremely impressed with the quality of the technology - beautiful real-time video streaming with very high compression," said Philip Brittan, chairman. "The speed with which the MPEG-4 team was able to turn their research project into a licensable product for us will help us deliver a more innovative solution to our customers."
The toolkit works with any Java supported platform. Licenses start at $500.
About alphaWorks
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