MPEG-4 Jump-Start (Paperback)
暫譯: MPEG-4 快速入門 (平裝本)

Summary

The "get started" developer's guide to MPEG-4, the future of Internet and Web multimedia!

MPEG-4 will transform Internet- and Web-based multimedia by enabling breakthrough audio, video, 2D, and 3D capabilities. This book is for every developer and technical decision-maker. In MPEG-4 Jump-Start, two leaders of the Internet multimedia community introduce the MPEG-4 standard: its key concepts, capabilities, applications, requirements, and limitations. Aaron E. Walsh and Mikael Bourges-Sevenier cover what you need to know to start developing MPEG-4 players and content today, including:

• How MPEG-4 builds on the success of the MPEG standards that enabled CDs, DVDs, and MP3
• MPEG-4's underlying technical capabilities and requirements
• 2D/3D scene composition and the MPEG-4 Binary Format for Scenes (BIFS)
• MPEG-4 techniques for facial and body animation
• New compression methods for 3D meshes
• XMT: The XML-based textual format for storing MPEG-4 contents and authoring commands

MPEG-4 offers unprecedented opportunities for delivering media in any networked communications environment—Internet, Web, broadcast, satellite, or even wireless. MPEG-4 Jump-Start gives you specific, insider's techniques for building tomorrow's breakthrough media applications—starting right now.

Every Jump-Start book is:

AUTHORITATIVE

written by world-class experts personally involved with the design and development of that technology

FOCUSED

providing exactly what you need to know to get started immediately with minimum effort

PRACTICAL

teaching you the skills and techniques that you need to develop professional, real-world software applications