MPEG MMT initiative (Modern Media Transport)
Chris Travis
FYI, news of an initiative on 'Modern Media Transport' has been
emerging from MPEG:
>>In order to develop standardized and efficient solutions for the
>>transport of MPEG media, especially given the recent increase demand
>>in the heterogeneous network environment, MPEG is gathering
>>information on current limitations of available standards in the area
>>of media streaming and challenges in emerging network environments.
>>
>>To overcome existing limitations and face the challenges that
>>emerging applications impose on the requirements of MMT
>>standardization, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) plans to organize a
>>half-day workshop in London on Wednesday (11a.m~ 5p.m) July 1 during
>>the 89th WG11 meeting in UK.
>>
>>The key intention of the workshop is to get overview state-of-art
>>technologies as well as to require solid use cases and requirements
>>for MMT.
etcetera.
See for example
<http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2009/04/workshop-on-mmt-modern-media-transport.html>
What relevance is this to Ambisonics? The connection is via MP4 Part
11, which Jerome Daniel's group and others have put in place as an
International Standard for Ambisonics.
Chris Travis
Oliver Thuns
Chris Travis
>no relevance? Who cares about yet another MPEG standard...
Distinct relevance! Many people are interested in and/or affected by
many of the existing MPEG standards. I expect that many people will be
interested in and/or affected by the new MPEG standard that might
emerge from the MMT initiative. Especially as it will leverage the
existing successful MPEG standards by improving transport and streaming.
A Google search on 'MPEG' gives seventy-eight-million
hits! 'Ambisonics' comes in 61 dB below this. That's quite a
difference.
Supporting and promoting the little guy does not mean one should
pretend the big guy isn't big, or that one should reject opportunities
for the little guy to benefit from activities that the big guy
initiates.
Chris Travis