Just for the ones that did make through the whole article:
The successor of MPEG-4 is already on the horizon and is called MPEG-7. This video standard is supposedly going to be introduced in July 2001 and principally integrates an object search routine. MPEG-2 will also be extended; MPEG-21 is the succeeding standard.
Just point out that MPEG-7 does not stand for the succesor of MPEG-4 as it tries to address a completely different field. While MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 focuss on video/audio compression, MPEG-7 moves into video and audio indexing basically for search and retrieval of multimedia databases so don't expect to compress your 2002 videos on MPEG-7 format but to help you search for it on the web using MPEG-7 technology.
MPEG-21, on the other hand, is still on its infancy so we'll see where it goes to.
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Just for the ones that did make through the whole article:
The successor of MPEG-4 is already on the horizon and is called MPEG-7. This video standard is supposedly going to be introduced in July 2001 and principally integrates an object search routine. MPEG-2 will also be extended; MPEG-21 is the succeeding standard.
Just point out that MPEG-7 does not stand for the succesor of MPEG-4 as it tries to address a completely different field. While MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 focuss on video/audio compression, MPEG-7 moves into video and audio indexing basically for search and retrieval of multimedia databases so don't expect to compress your 2002 videos on MPEG-7 format but to help you search for it on the web using MPEG-7 technology.
MPEG-21, on the other hand, is still on its infancy so we'll see where it goes to.
Actually, out of the van der Linden programming trilogy, the best has got to be _ Great Lakes Ships We Remember II_. Read Amazon's PvdL interview.