Amazon.com description: Product Description: The advanced MPEG-4 guide for every multimedia professional!-- The next step beyond the best-selling MPEG-4 Jumpstart!-- Covers natural and synthetic audio tools, sound composition/presentation; enhanced 3-D audio modeling, natural video coding, and more.-- Introduces never-before-published MPEG-J techniques!MPEG-4 is transforming Internet-based multimedia by delivering breakthrough video and audio quality, flexibility, and control. In this book, the authors of the best-selling MPEG-4 Jumpstart dive even more deeply into the new standard, showing developers how to leverage it to the fullest. Starting from where they left off in MPEG-4 Jumpstart, Aaron Walsh and Mikael Bourge-Sevenier cover MPEG-4's most sophisticated features and capabilities, including natural and synthetic audio tools; sound composition and presentation; enhanced modeling of 3-D sound scenes; and natural video coding. This is the only book on the market that covers MPEG-Java (MPEG-J) Java Programmatic Control, as well as powerful new Media Streams techniques for linking and synchronizing scenes. For all Internet media developers and technology professionals who want to understand tomorrow's leading solution for network-based media distribution.