N10569 Draft Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) Requirements and N10671 Context and Objectives for Advanced IPTV Terminal was developed. Several use cases, their requirements and potential technical solutions are provided. It appears that there is a lack of technologies related to social networking and simple editing functions for audio and video.
MPEG was informed that the performance of the state of the art video coders for certain applications like surveillance or soap operas is not sufficient. The common feature of these applications appears to be that pan/tile cameras are located at fixed locations. Currently, evidence is lacking that the performance of video codecs developed for these scenarios will outperform significantly AVC or other codecs.
