Goals and objectives of the European prject "MPEG-4 PC-MPEG-4 System Implementation and Tools for Personal Computers (ESPRIT#23191) are presented. An overview of the project's developments for autoring and playing, from local and remote sources, of content that conforms to the new multimedia standard ISO/IEC: 14496, nicknamed MPEG-4, is given. Example applications for proving the functionalities and the powerfulness of the MPEG-4 standard, that is expected to become of great importance in the media world, are presented. A demonstration, including broadcast features, is planned during the ECMAST'99 Conference.
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