DEMOS

For a quick overview of GPAC potential, have a look at these demonstrations.

DOWNLOADS

The latest release of GPAC is 0.4.4 RC2, issued in May 2007. Check out the downloads section.

FEATURES

Look here for a short overview of all the features of the GPAC project.

REFERENCES

Check interesting references about GPAC.

HELP & SUPPORT

The place to go if you have questions on GPAC not answered in the FAQ.

LINKS

Interesting links related to GPAC (other projects, related standards ...)

Projects used in GPAC

• Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript: ECMAScript interpreter
• The FreeType project: font engine and rasterizer supporting TrueType, Type1, ...
• SDL: Audio, video and windowing library for fast games and multimedia development
• zlib: "A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library"
• FFMPEG: multimedia file formats and Audio/Video codecs library
• FAAC/FAAD: MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC codec
• Xiph.org project: OGG file format, Vorbis audio codec and Theora video codec
• The Independent JPEG Group: Free implementation of the JPEG standard
• The PNG project: lossless image compression format
• MAD: MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio decoder
• XviD: MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile video codec

Multimedia Standards

• MPEG-related standards
  • Official MPEG Home Page
  • Overview of the MPEG-4 standard (get some rest before reading it, it is quite long)
  • The MPEG-4 Industry Forum
  • 3GPP: 3rd Generation Partnership Project
  • 3GPP2:3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
  • Internet Streaming Media Alliance
• Web-related standards
  • The W3C SVG 1.1 and SVG 1.2 Tiny standards
  • The W3C SMIL 2.0 standard
  • W3C Home Page
  • Web3D Consortium Home Page
  • VRML97 Specification
  • X3D Specification
  • The Audio/Video Transport group of the IETF

Other multimedia or related open source projects

• Latest official release of the MPEG-4 Reference Software - For those who dare:)
• MPEG4IP Open Source MPEG-4 audio and video player (local and streaming)
• Apple's Darwin Streaming Server Open source RTP/RTSP server for content streaming
• OpenIPMP Open source Project on DRM and MPEG-4 IPMP
• Batik SVG Toolkit An open source java SVG toolkit
• X-Smiles Java based Open Source XML browser
• Batik SVG Toolkit An open source java SVG toolkit

Misc links

• Doom9.org forums, everything you need to know about media formats (including topics on MP4 and MP4Box)
• A nice XMT-O tutorial by Larry Bouthillier