Media Processing Activity Group

The Media Processing Activity Group works closely with the Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) active in the area of Media Coding standards including the ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, and the ISO/IEC JTC1 organizations. The role of the activity group is standardization support. If the SDOs are unable to deliver the required Media Coding Standards, the activity group will define those standards.

What We Do

• Define the speech, audio, video and still picture coding requirements for SDOs. These requirements are brought to the attention of the standards bodies by liasons or by member's contributions.
• Promote reasonable licensing of SDO standard based Media Codecs by acting as a moderator and by conducting meetings between users and patent holders.
• Promote the finalized Media Coding standards.

Liaisons

The IMTC collaborates and has liaison relationships with several standards development organizations. Learn about the liaison activities this group is maintaining with external organizations.

Accomplishments

Providing functional royalty free code as a service to the industry is one of the group's accomplishments. Currently, the group hosts the Nokia H.264, a royalty free code.

How We Work Together

The group's work is done via email and as needed, the group will meet at the IMTC Forum events.

Who Can Join

Any IMTC member in good standing is welcome to join the group.

Chair

Imre Varga Siemens AG ph +49.89.722.47.537