The latest headlines about MPEG-4, Windows Media, Streaming Media and related technologies.

Announcements of new products from companies or events from organizations related to MPEG-4 and other technologies.

New sources of information like web sites, documentation or tests for MPEG-4 and related technologies.

Overview of their implementation and contribution to the MPEG-4 standard, especially for the Systems part.

Reading list for an MIT seminar, most of the mentioned publications are directly available on their web server or linked to Amazon's book section.

ARL is a commercial laboratory involved in subjective quality assessment methods like preparing and analyzing codec comparisons for 3GPP.

"Meeting MPEG-4 advanced audio coding requirements", knowledgeable article summarizing the most important properties of AAC for hardware playback.

Upcoming MPEG-4 and Streaming Media related calendar of events.

Besides this forum for audio codecs there are others for container formats and video encoding in general with FAQs.

The main goal of the SAOG was to implement Structured Audio (SA) in open source applications offering a portal for their users with forum and downloads of samples and software.