Over the last two years I have written ~100 articles in defence of MPEG, its legacy and its future. The articles were written without a particular organisation in mind.

During these two years the number of readers has grow and I thought it useful to group the articles according to the following categories.

• MPAI
• ISO
• A new and better MPEG – sketching the future
• MPEG – The attempted future
• MPEG – In general
• MPEG – The birth
• MPEG – The organisation
• MPEG – How it makes standards
• MPEG – SWOT Analysis
• MPEG – Patents
• MPEG – Features of standards
• MPEG – Work plan
• MPEG – Standards (audio, video and 3DG)
• MPEG – Standards (other than AVG)
• Data compression

Here are the articles

• MPAI
  • Leaving FRAND for good
  • Better information from data
  • An analysis of the MPAI framework licence
  • MPAI – do we need it?
  • New standards making for a new age
• ISO
  • This is ISO – An incompetent organisation
  • This is ISO – An obtuse organisation
  • This is ISO – A hypocritical organisation
  • This is ISO – A chaotic organisation
  • This is ISO – A feudal organisation
• A new and better MPEG – sketching the future
  • What to do with a jammed machine?
  • Top-down or bottom-up?
  • A future without MPEG
  • MPEG, 5 years from now
  • Leonardo: who I am, what I have done so far, what I plan to do next
  • An action plan for the MPEG Future community
  • Which future for MPEG?
  • Design and build the future of MPEG
  • The MPEG Future Manifesto
• MPEG – The attempted future
  • Some have it straight
  • The MPEG exception
  • Why is there a battle around MPEG?
  • Strategic planning for MPEG
  • Finding the driver of future MPEG standards
  • Which company would dare to do it?
  • MPEG: vision, execution, results and a conclusion
  • MPEG and JPEG are grown up
  • The talents, MPEG and the master
  • Einige Gespenster gehen um in der Welt – die Gespenster der Zauberlehrlinge
  • Hamlet in Gothenburg: one or two ad hoc groups?
• MPEG – In general
  • The MPEG Hall of fame
  • The MPEG Metamorphoses
  • MPEG is a big thing. Can it be bigger?
  • Can MPEG survive? And if so, how?
  • Who “decides” in MPEG?
  • Developing standards while preparing the future
  • The true history of MPEG’s first steps
  • Put MPEG on trial
  • The impact of MPEG on the media industry
  • The MPEG frontier
  • Tranquil 7+ days of hard work
  • MPEG: what it did, is doing, will do
  • Why is MPEG successful?
• MPEG – The birth
  • The Mule, Foundation and MPEG
  • The discontinuity of digital technologies
  • Why MPEG is part of ISO/IEC
  • MPEG and ISO
• MPEG – The organisation
  • The MPEG ecosystem
  • Digging deeper in the MPEG work
  • MPEG communicates
  • How does MPEG actually work?
  • Life inside MPEG
  • 30 years of MPEG, and counting?
• MPEG – How it makes standards
  • National interests, international standards and MPEG
  • Standards and collaboration
  • The birth of an MPEG standard idea
  • MPEG standards, MPEG software and Open Source Software
  • Standards and business models
  • Does success breed success?
  • Dot the i’s and cross the t’s
  • Can we improve MPEG standards’ success rate?
  • Still more to say about MPEG standards
  • There is more to say about MPEG standards
  • Is there a logic in MPEG standards?
  • The life of an MPEG standard
• MPEG – SWOT Analysis
  • More MPEG Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
  • Another view at MPEG’s strengths and weaknesses
  • No one is perfect, but some are more accomplished than others
• MPEG – Patents
  • Matching technology supply with demand
  • IP counting or revenue counting?
  • Business model based ISO/IEC standards
  • Can MPEG overcome its Video “crisis”?
  • A crisis, the causes and a solution
• MPEG – Features of standards
  • Developing MPEG standards in the viral pandemic age
  • The value of MPEG standards
  • The impact of MPEG standards
  • How to make standards adopted by industry
  • More standards – more successes – more failures
• MPEG – Work plan
  • MPEG status report (Jan 2020)
  • What is MPEG doing these days?
  • The MPEG work plan (March 2019)
• MPEG – Standards (audio, video and 3DG)
  • The future of visual information coding standards
  • On the convergence of Video and 3D Graphics
  • What is the difference between an image and a video frame?
  • More video with more features
  • The MPEG drive to immersive visual experiences
  • Thirty years of audio coding and counting
  • Forty years of video coding and counting
  • MPEG can also be green
  • The MPEG machine is ready to start (again)
  • Standards and quality
  • Compression standards and quality go hand in hand
• MPEG – Standards (other than AVG)
  • An “unexpected” MPEG media type: fonts
  • Media, linked media and applications
  • Data compression in MPEG
  • Moving intelligence around
  • Genome is digital, and can be compressed
  • What would MPEG be without Systems?
• Data compression
  • It worked twice and will work again
  • Data Compression Technologies – A FAQ
  • Compression standards for the data industries
  • Compression – the technology for the digital age

Posts in this thread

• • MPAI – do we need it?
  • New standards making for a new age
  • The MPEG to Industry Hall of fame
  • This is ISO – An incompetent organisation
  • This is ISO – An obtuse organisation
  • What to do with a jammed machine?
  • Stop here if you want to know about MPEG (†)
  • This is ISO – A hypocritical organisation
  • The MPEG Hall of fame
  • Top-down or bottom-up?
  • This is ISO – A chaotic organisation
  • A future without MPEG
  • This is ISO – A feudal organisation

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