How does MPEG-4 affect DVD?
MPEG-4 is a video encoding standard designed primarily for low-data rate streaming video, although it’s actually more efficient than MPEG-2 at DVD and HDTV data rates. MPEG-4 also provides for advanced multimedia with media objects, but most implementations only support simple video (Simple Visual Profile). DVD uses MPEG-2 video encoding (see 3.4 for details). Standard DVD players don’t recognize the MPEG-4 video format. MPEG-4 files can be stored on DVD-ROM for use on computers. For example, Divx;-) uses MPEG-4 (see 4.8). It’s possible that MPEG-4 will be used in a future, high-definition version of DVD. It’s also possible that a similar format such as H.263 will be used for the next generation of DVD. In any case, it will probably not appear before 2004 at the earliest. For more about MPEG, see Tristan’s MPEG.org site and the MPEG home page.
MPEG-4 is a video encoding standard designed primarily for low-data rate streaming video, although it’s actually more efficient than MPEG-2 at DVD and HDTV data rates. MPEG-4 also provides for advanced multimedia with media objects, but most implementations only support simple video (Simple Visual Profile). There’s also MPEG-4 part 10, also known as H.264 (and also known as JVT or AVC), which is an even better video encoding standard. DVD uses MPEG-2 video encoding (see 3.4 for details). Standard DVD players don’t recognize the MPEG-4 video format. MPEG-4 files can be stored on DVD-ROM for use on computers. For example, DivX uses MPEG-4 (see 4.8). It’s possible that MPEG-4 or H.264 will be used in a future, high-definition version of DVD. In any case, it will probably not appear before 2005 at the earliest. For more about MPEG, see Tristan’s MPEG.org site and the MPEG home page.
MPEG-4 is a video encoding standard designed primarily for low-data rate streaming video, although it’s actually more efficient than MPEG-2 at DVD and HDTV data rates. DVD uses MPEG-2 video encoding. Standard DVD players don’t recognize the MPEG-4 video format. MPEG-4 files can be stored on DVD-ROM for use on computers.
