1 Introduction and Scene Setting
Jim Wilkinson
This chapter will start with the ground-breaking work of the EBU/SMPTE Task Force that originally recognized the need for a standardized file format for TV program production and program exchange, since there was nothing suitable at the time (around 1996). Most file formats in use at the start of the Task Force work were either raw essence streams or proprietary formats.
Where Did It All Begin?
The EBU/SMPTE Task Force (with the full title of "EBU/SMPTE Task Force for Harmonized Standards for the Exchange of Programme Material as Bitstreams") started as an informal meeting of EBU and SMPTE members at IBC in Amsterdam in September, 1996. The first formal meeting took place in November, 1996, at ...
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