A JAVA-BASED MPEG-4 LIKE VIDEO CODEC

The MPEG-4 specification was developed in response to the growing need for a coding method that can facilitate dynamic access to audiovisual objects for various applications such as digital storage media, inter net, various forms of wired or wireless communication etc., Although t he specification is still in the working draft stage, the concepts and technologies of the specification are very encouraging and will inspi re a lot of creative works In the multimedia applications, This paper is devoted to the rsoftware implementation of the video part of MPEG-4 , We develop a prototype of MPEG4-like video encoder and a prototype o f Java-based video decoder, which can be executed on Internet, in the client-server model by using Java Applet, The prototype can show us th e strong functionality of MPEG-4 that includes user interactivity and object scalability, etc.