IBM Java toolkit supports MPEG-4 development

By Alun Williams

Posted on 13 Oct 2003 at 11:44

One for multimedia Java developers. IBM has released version 1.1 of its toolkit for working with MPEG-4 video and audio.

The IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 is a set of Java classes and APIs for generating and playing back, through applets or applications, MPEG-4 content. It supports the Interleaved Format for progressive downloading (HTTP 'Streaming').

The SDK includes five sample applications including Avgen (a GUI tool for creating audio/video-only content), XMTBatch (for creating rich MPEG-4 content beyond simple audio and video), M4Play (an MPEG-4 client playback application), M4Applet for ISMA (an applet for ISMA-compliant content) and M4Applet for HTTP (a Java applet for MPEG-4 content played back over HTTP).

The toolkit should work with any platform capable of supporting Java.

More info can be found on IBM's alphaWorks website. This is its area for developers featuring 'alpha code' technologies.