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IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 updated

February 13, 2006 on 10:00 am | In General, Library, Mpeg-4, Software |

The IBM alphaWorks toolkit for MPEG-4 has been updated. With this toolkit an API for handling MPEG-4 video and AAC as well as MP3 Audio is provided. It also includes 5 sample applications for decoding and encoding MPEG-4 (and MP3 and AAC) streams.

Looking great on the first view the IBM MPEG-4 toolkit has one major drawback: For using it a license has to be purchased.This is a feature, which disqualifies the toolkit for usage in a GPL application.

Other options, besides the Java Media Framework, for integrating multimedia capabilities in Java applications are for instance:

• MediaFrame MPEG-4 Player,
• SurePlayer MPEG-1 Player,
• KuttPech MPEG Player,
• Java Media Jukebox (e.g. mp3, ogg, mpeg) and
• JavaLayer MP3 de- and encoder

A review of above libraries and toolkits will follow.