MPEG Industry Forum
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The MPEG Industry Forum is a non-profit consortium
dedicated to "further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users."
The group is involved in many tasks, including promotion of MPEG standards (particularly MPEG-4
, MPEG-4 AVC / H.264, MPEG-7
and MPEG-21
); developing MPEG certification for products; organising educational events; and collaborating on development of new de facto
MPEG standards.
The MPEG Industry Forum is an independent and platform neutral not-for-profit organisation with the following goal:
"To facilitate and further the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG and related standards in next generation digital media services. It provides a forum to exchange information and views on technological, economic and regulatory issues that are relevant to these services. It also provides a powerful industry voice advocating the adoption of standards and consolidating the direction of the industry in the time of transition from analogue to digital television and media services.
MPEGIF, founded in 2000, has played a significant role in facilitating the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 as the industry’s standard video compression technology powering next generation television and most mainstream content delivery and consumption applications including packaged media. MPEGIF, with more than 2500 people subscribed to its mailing lists, serves as a single point of information on technology, products and services for these standards, offers interoperability testing, a conformance program, marketing activities and is supporting over 50 international trade shows and conferences per year.
The key activities of the forum are structured via three main Committees:
Technology & Engineering
Interoperability & Compliance
Marketing & Communication
2009-2010 Focus Areas
3DTV
Addressable Advertising: extension and adoption of cable Labs SCTE -104 for all multimedia
MPEG-4/Scalable Video Coding (SVC)
Simplifying competitive licensing
Quality of Experience / Quality of Service metrics
Royalty free DRM initiatives
Online Video / Internet Streaming
IPTV ecosystem
Ultra HD (7680x4320)
MPEG/High-Performance Video Coding (HVC, H.265)
MPEG-7 / MPEG-21
MPEGIF is also running the MPEGIF Logo Qualification Program, which is designed to help guide interoperability among products and technology. The program, based on a self-certification process, is free of charge and open to all companies using MPEG technology, not just members of MPEGIF although, membership is encouraged. Qualified products have the right to display the MP4 Qualification Mark and also list their status in their documentation, literature, and advertising. They will also have their product listed in the MPEGIF Product Directory.
The board of Directors of MPEGIF is composed of
Prof. Dr. h. c. Sebastian Moeritz - President (Professor, St. Petersburg State University for Film and Television)
David Price - Vice President & Treasurer (Vice President, Harmonic)
Sean McCarthy PhD (Fellow of the Technical Staff, Motorola)
Yuval Fisher (CTO, RGB Networks)
Consortium
A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal....
dedicated to "further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users."
The group is involved in many tasks, including promotion of MPEG standards (particularly MPEG-4
MPEG-4
MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC...
, MPEG-4 AVC / H.264, MPEG-7
MPEG-7
MPEG-7 is a multimedia content description standard. It was standardized in ISO/IEC 15938 . This description will be associated with the content itself, to allow fast and efficient searching for material that is of interest to the user. MPEG-7 is formally called Multimedia Content Description...
and MPEG-21
MPEG-21
The MPEG-21 standard, from the Moving Picture Experts Group, aims at defining an open framework for multimedia applications. MPEG-21 is ratified in the standards ISO/IEC 21000 - Multimedia framework .MPEG-21 is based on two essential concepts:...
); developing MPEG certification for products; organising educational events; and collaborating on development of new de facto
De facto
De facto is a Latin expression that means "concerning fact." In law, it often means "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law" or "in practice or actuality, but not officially established." It is commonly used in contrast to de jure when referring to matters of law, governance, or...
MPEG standards.
The MPEG Industry Forum is an independent and platform neutral not-for-profit organisation with the following goal:
"To facilitate and further the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG and related standards in next generation digital media services. It provides a forum to exchange information and views on technological, economic and regulatory issues that are relevant to these services. It also provides a powerful industry voice advocating the adoption of standards and consolidating the direction of the industry in the time of transition from analogue to digital television and media services.
MPEGIF, founded in 2000, has played a significant role in facilitating the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 as the industry’s standard video compression technology powering next generation television and most mainstream content delivery and consumption applications including packaged media. MPEGIF, with more than 2500 people subscribed to its mailing lists, serves as a single point of information on technology, products and services for these standards, offers interoperability testing, a conformance program, marketing activities and is supporting over 50 international trade shows and conferences per year.
The key activities of the forum are structured via three main Committees:
Technology & Engineering
Interoperability & Compliance
Marketing & Communication
2009-2010 Focus Areas
3DTV
Addressable Advertising: extension and adoption of cable Labs SCTE -104 for all multimedia
MPEG-4/Scalable Video Coding (SVC)
Simplifying competitive licensing
Quality of Experience / Quality of Service metrics
Royalty free DRM initiatives
Online Video / Internet Streaming
IPTV ecosystem
Ultra HD (7680x4320)
MPEG/High-Performance Video Coding (HVC, H.265)
MPEG-7 / MPEG-21
MPEGIF is also running the MPEGIF Logo Qualification Program, which is designed to help guide interoperability among products and technology. The program, based on a self-certification process, is free of charge and open to all companies using MPEG technology, not just members of MPEGIF although, membership is encouraged. Qualified products have the right to display the MP4 Qualification Mark and also list their status in their documentation, literature, and advertising. They will also have their product listed in the MPEGIF Product Directory.
The board of Directors of MPEGIF is composed of
Prof. Dr. h. c. Sebastian Moeritz - President (Professor, St. Petersburg State University for Film and Television)
David Price - Vice President & Treasurer (Vice President, Harmonic)
Sean McCarthy PhD (Fellow of the Technical Staff, Motorola)
Yuval Fisher (CTO, RGB Networks)