See the article below re: MPEG-4. As I understand it, MPEG-4 will provide big-time compression for video, allowing for the quality of the ICN but over IP. Sounds like the ICN is dabbling with it a bit. RealVideo is going toward it, and QT6 has the CoDec built in. Anybody have some experience or knowledge in this format? ------------ LICENSING FEE TAKING A BITE OUT OF APPLE MPEG LA, a company representing owners of patents related to MPEG-4, wants to charge licensing fees to content providers that distribute video in the MPEG-4 compression format. Apple Computer, one such provider, opposes this policy and will not release its QuickTime 6 and QuickTime Broadcaster products until the policy can be amended. Lawrence Horn, vice president of MPEG LA, said that his group would charge service or content providers about 2 cents per hour of paid-video streams, while an additional 25 cents will be levied for each software unit used to disseminate and play the material. International Data (IDC) analyst Susan Kevorkian believes that Apple's opposition to the licensing fee should produce some significant results. "Short term, there will be some revenue loss, but Apple has enough influence that ultimately the licensing rules will be negotiated," she predicted. (San Francisco Chronicle Online, 13 February 2002) (Distributed by Educom/Edupage) ----------------- Thanks, SS
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