3. Applications
Early in the development of the MPEG-4 standard, a study of applications, the functionalities required by each, and prototyping examples was published [34]. The document was intended to describe the possible future uses of MPEG-4 technology and stimulate the creation of new application scenarios. To date, however, MPEG-4 has mainly been used for broadcast-distribution-transmission, although its functionalities make it a multi-media tool.
A relatively universal classification of the needs that these applications must meet is based on three criteria, essentially ergonomic [29]. For a multimedia application comprising a sender (or creator, or server) and...
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