“The MPEG-7 AudioVisual Description Profile (AVDP) has become a new ISO International Standard. The profile is specially designed for representing and exchanging metadata generated by automatic extraction tools, such as speech-to-text transcription engines and videoshot detection algorithms.”
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“High Efficiency Video Coding
HEVC : The draft standard
The new standard under development by ISO MPEG and ITU-T VCEG, HEVC, is due to be released in early 2013. You can download a draft version of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard from the JCT-VC document site.”
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“The Xtreamer Elvira with fanless compact design offers a lower cost solution for users who want a solid yet capable compact Media Player that is ideal for travel and playback from an external USB Hard Drives. It fully supports the very latest media files and codecs such as MKV-H264, MP4, DivX, WMV, RMVB, DVD ISO, Blu-Ray ISO, MP3, WMA, TS, FLAC as well as DTS HD and TrueHD with 7.1 CH audio.”
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“Firecore’s aTV Flash (black) … blesses Cupertino’s hobby set-top with an all new media player that can open AVI, MKV, MP4, ISO and host of other file formats. There’s also an HTML5 browser for surfing the web and streaming media. Want more apps? How about a Plex client and Last.FM radio? Perhaps best of all, though, it allows you to play back files stored on a PC, Mac or NAS without the need for iTunes.”