from fundamental building-blocks (Figure 1). As a result, with as much content as possible. This paper presents aspects multimedia decoder vendors no longer need to (largely inde-of Reconfigurable Media Coding (RMC), a project currently pendently) develop implementations of new coding formats underway

as part of a worldwide standard. The analysis of this problem originated a new standard initiative within the ISO/IEC MPEG committee, called Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC). The main idea is to develop a video coding standard that overcomes many shortcomings of the current standardization

Abstract Video coding technology in the last 20 years has evolved producing a variety of different and complex algorithms and coding standards. So far the specification of such standards, and of the algorithms that build them, has been done case by case providing monolithic textual and reference

within each standard specification. This paper presents an alternative paradigm for codec deployment that is currently under development by MPEG, known as Reconfigurable Media Coding (RMC). Using the RMC framework, arbitrary combinations of fundamental al-gorithms may be assembled, without predefined

The SMC3 WG is attempting to clarify the use of some existing error codes in the command standard to avoid misinterpretation. The error code LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, INITIALIZING COMMAND REQUIRED is one of these error codes. This document specifies its use within media changers. Also the INITIALIZE

The SMC3 WG is attempting to clarify the use of some existing error codes in the command standard to avoid misinterpretation. The error code LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, INITIALIZING COMMAND REQUIRED is one of these error codes. This document specifies its use within media changers. Also the INITIALIZE

[An overview of its main objectives] The current monolithic and lengthy scheme behind the standardization and the design of new video coding standards is becoming inappropriate to satisfy the dynamism and changing needs of the video coding community. Such scheme and specification formalism does

processing in the network nodes can provide advantages in terms of throughput or robustness. These potentials, combined with the advent of ad hoc and wireless delivery architectures have triggered the interest of research community about the application of the network coding principles to media streaming

an overview of network analysis techniques and discusses their implementation in the VC context. A simple example illustrating network analysis is presented in the Appendix. Section II describes our data. In Section III, we analyze the effect of VC networking on fund performance. Section IV examines

(LDPCs), another ECC, also provide near Shannon limit error correction ability. However, LDPCs use a decoding scheme which is much more amenable to hardware implementation. This paper will rst present an overview of these coding schemes, then discuss the issues involved in building an LDPC decoder using