The MPEG Industry Forum announced last week that after 10 years it will merge with the Open IPTV Forum.
According to an email sent from the MPEGIF officers: “We have ‘declared victory’ and the activities of the MPEG Industry Forum are now being wound up. By the end of this month all remaining assets will be put into the hands of the Open IPTV Forum where you can access these through http://www.oipf.tv/mpegif.”
The group was first initiated in June 2000 in an effort to develop alternatives to MPEG-2. “Our task was to educate and evangelize an emerging standards based solution that became known as MPEG-4 Part 10, aka AVC, aka H.264,” notes the email.
“Our efforts drove in many directions including many informational events — the MPEG IF Master Class series — and, crucially, a series of important interoperability test rounds combined with some very active tech-lists (that will now be closed on July 1st),” reads the email. “Slowly but surely H.264 gained mind share and then market share and today is clearly the dominant codec of choice replacing MPEG-2 around the world. Hence the declaration of victory.”
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