MPEG-4 Part 11 ''Scene description and application engine'' was published as

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/IEC 14496-11 in 2005. MPEG-4 Part 11 is also known as BIFS, XMT, MPEG-J. It defines: * the coded representation of the spatio-temporal positioning of audio-visual objects as well as their behaviour in response to interaction (scene description); * the coded representation of synthetic two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) objects that can be manifested audibly or visually; * the Extensible MPEG-4 Textual (XMT) format - a textual representation of the multimedia content described in MPEG-4 using the

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(XML); * and a system level description of an application engine (format, delivery, lifecycle, and behaviour of downloadable

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byte code applications). (The MPEG-J Graphics Framework eXtensions (GFX) is defined in MPEG-4 Part 21 - ISO/IEC 14496-21.) Binary Format for Scenes (BIFS) is a

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format for two- or three-dimensional audiovisual content. It is based on

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and part 11 of the MPEG-4 standard. BIFS is MPEG-4 scene description protocol to compose MPEG-4 objects, describe interaction with MPEG-4 objects and to animate MPEG-4 objects. MPEG-4 Binary Format for Scene (BIFS) is used in Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB). The XMT framework accommodates substantial portions of SMIL, W3C

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(SVG) and

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(the new name of VRML). Such a representation can be directly played back by a SMIL or VRML player, but can also be binarised to become a native MPEG-4 representation that can be played by an MPEG-4 player. Another bridge has been created with

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(Binary MPEG format for XML).

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ISO/IEC 14496-11:2005 - Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 11: Scene description and application engine
- July 2001

- October 2006, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 Computer file formats

MPEG-4 Part 11 MPEG-4 Part 11 ''Scene description and application engine'' was published as ISO/IEC 14496-11 in 2005. MPEG-4 Part 11 is also known as BIFS, XMT, MPEG-J. It defines: * the coded representation of the spatio-temporal positioning of audio-visual obje ...

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