MHEG
MHEG (Multimedia and Hypermedia Experts Group)
(ISO/IEC JTC1 / SC 29 / WG 12), approval in 1994 as IS
- Defines:
- representation and encoding of multimedia and hypermedia
- objects for interchange
- within or across applications or services
- by storage devices, telecommunications or broadcast networks
- Object-oriented:
- based on object-oriented analysis
- encoded with ASN.1 or SGML
- Main object classes:
- content
- selection, modification
- action
- link
- script
- composite
- descriptor
MHEG is a standard for multimedia object interchange, defined in the context of a suite of related standards, and an overall architecture for multimedia.
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