Delivering Mpeg-4 Based Audio-visual Services

Delivering Mpeg-4 Based Audio-visual Services Investigates The Different Aspects Of End-to-end Multimedia Services; Content Creation, Server And Service Provider, Network, And The End-user Terminal. Part I Provides A Comprehensive Introduction To Digital Video Communications, Mpeg Standards, And Technologies, And Deals With System Level Issues Including Standardization And Interoperability, User Interaction, And The Design Of A Distributed Video Server. Part Ii Investigates The Systems In The Context Of Object-based Multimedia Services And Presents A Design For An Object-based Audio-visual Terminal, Some Of These Features Having Been Adopted By The Mpeg-4 Systems Specification.