This means that the mpeg-4 standard under development has reached a very stable status, and that 'National Standardization Bodies' will now be asked to comment and vote on it. The MPEG-4 standard as it is currently defined in the 'CDs' makes it possible to integrate natural and synthetic audio, 'classic' rectangular video and moving video 'objects' with an arbitrary shape, animated faces and animated 2D meshes with several kinds of textures.
Scalability is built into all the tools.
Interlaced as well as progressive content are supported. The Systems layer allows complex 'scenes' to be created, from the classical rectangular video with sound to virtual environments. A number of profiles have been defined for the Audio, Visual and Systems parts. These profiles define tool subsets that cater for a large class of applications. The Seminar will be held at the San Jose Convention Center.