The Musical Slide Show Multimedia Application Format (MAF) which is currently being standardized by the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) conveys the concept of combining several established standard technologies in a single file format. It defines the format of packing up MP3 audio data, along with JPEG images, MPEG-7 Simple Profile metadata, timed text, and MPEG-4 LASeR script. The presentation of Musical Slide Show MAF contents is made in a synchronized manner with JPEG images, timed text to MP3 audio track. Also, the rendering effect on JPEG images can be supported by the MPEG-4 LASeR script. This Musical Slide Show MAF will enrich the consumption of MP3 contents assisted with synchronized and rendered JPEG images, text as well as MPEG-7 metadata about the MP3 audio contents. However, there is no protection and governance mechanism for Musical Slide Show MAF which is the essential elements to deploy the sorts of contents. In this paper, to manage the Musical Slide Show MAF contents in a controlled manner, we present a protection and governance mechanism by using MPEG-21 Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP) Components and MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language (REL) technologies We implement an authoring tool and a player tool for Musical Slide Show MAF contents and show the experimental results as well.

Date Published: 26 February 2007
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6507, Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2007, 65070G (26 February 2007);

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6507:
Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2007
Reiner Creutzburg; Jarmo H. Takala; Jianfei Cai, Editor(s)