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27 januari 2006
MPEG completes two important tools
MPEG-21 took another significant step forward with the completion of Part 15 Event Reporting. This new part of MPEG-21 is another important tool in suite of multimedia management technology. Event Reporting provides mechanisms by which providers may request peers to send reports on the usage of Digital Items. The standard provides a specification for the report requests and the reports themselves. As for other MPEG-21 technologies, this infrastructure is not required in all MPEG-21 applications but is a vital business enabler for some content providers.
MPEG also completed Part 17 of MPEG-21 known as Fragment Identification of MPEG Resources. Fragment Identifiers for MPEG Media Types provides, for the first time, a complete set of location pointer mechanisms for the family of MPEG media. The Identifiers allow users to locate fragments of video, both spatially and temporally as well as identifying sections of their associated audio files. The standard also provides location mechanisms for 'logical models' of, for example, DVDs and CDs. The identifiers can be used across the Internet and not just within MPEG-21 as they are conformant with the W3C fragment identifier mechanisms.
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