Quick BIFS primer


Document updated on May 26th, 2003

Table of contents:

Introduction

This will be quick ;-)

This primer is here to help you start writing your own scenes in BIFS.

To follow this primer, we recommend using the Osmo4 player.

Choose your favorite weapon (mp4tool or BIFSEnc/MP4Enc) and go to that section.

We welcome suggestions for improvements of this page.

Enjoy!


How to use BIFSENC/MP4ENC

Here is where to get the tools, compiled for PC Windows:

Before you load the samples, you need the streams which can download from this directory. You have to put the streams in a directory at the same level as the individual sample directories for the scripts to work.

Then you have some directories with samples:

In each directory, there is:

How to use mp4tool

You can get the tool from another page.

Before you load the samples, you need the streams which can download from this directory. You have to put the streams in a directory at the same level as the individual sample directories for the scripts to work. Information about the nhnt and info files is in the tools page.

Then you have some directories with samples:

In each directory, there is:

How to teach yourself other tricks

  1. Get "The MPEG-4 Book" (Prentice-Hall, Pereira & Ebrahimi, editors) and read the BIFS chapter.
  2. Get the Systems conformance streams for this site and:

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