MPEG-4 is in the news as an emerging streaming media, it will use Web3d's VRML based H-Anim avatars in some of the proposed standards and there are some partial implementationsof the MPEG-4 standard for use now.
MPEG Working Group of Web3d ---------------------------- http://www.web3d.org/WorkingGroups/web3d-mpeg MPEG-4 requires H-Anim VRML Animation, Sun's VRML Loaders does it ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.web3d.org/WorkingGroups/web3d-mpeg/hypermail/2001/0159.html | JMF MPEG-4 Player: | | IBM AlphaWorks JavaDecoder fully supports the | MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile ( ISO / IEC 14496-2 ) | with the exception of RVLC. | http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/sc_java_human_animation.jpg | http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0110&L=java3d-interest&P=46030 MPEG-4 & the Java Media Framework ( JMF ) --------------------------------------------- http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/techmain/mpeg-4 http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/index.html H-Anim Avatars: You control, Make Movie, Play Movie ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/H-Anim_Avatars.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/gait_analysis_tutor.html The Chess Player You can control through piped commands by clicking on Dials which route commands to the Named Joints of the VRML based H-Anim Avatar. You can create movies or streamed videos and play them ( the next two links above ). VRML + Java3d + Java JMF --> video stream or file or playback. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/shout3d/models/H-Anim/darts_animation_VRML.wrl http://home.rochester.rr.com/javajava/media/darts_animation_movie.mov > > this is mostly an article on quicktimes 10 anniv > > but it also touches on their implementation of mpeg4 > > could this be a solution for x3d? > > > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/05/142206.shtml > > clayton cottingham wrote to www-vrml Right, here's the CNet article: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8068812.html The VRML Loaders created and donated by Sun to Web3d animate VRML based H-Anim models, the x3d ones do not. Join the H-Anim mailing list. If you have an H-Anim Avatar on the web, you can animate it now, if you have a VRML plug-in player: "Intro to MPEG-4, animate YOUR H-Anim Avatar NOW" ----------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/HAnimPoser.html enter the URL of your avatar & you're on your way. It can be done with Pure Java for the ultimate in portability or Java3d for higher speed & rendering quality. Please note IBM is using neither plug-in VRML viewers nor Javascript, but they do have a Java implementation which works nicely for me on Linux. Some falsely claim you can't animate the VRML based H-Anim avatars with Java3d, please diregard the false statments by Aaron Walsh, Justin Couch, Alan Hudson, Prentice Hall, and those working for the National Science Foundation at U. Penn: They are either ignorant or liars or both and they hurt Web3d & Java3d. -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator ----------------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
