Hello All thanks a lot to all of the members on this lists , for all the help & guidence that you guys have provided to me , i would like to know following things WRT MPEG-4 Part to and MPEG-2 1) We came to know from few companies thats are dealing in the MPEG domain that MPEG-4 Part 10 content can be transported over IP by encapsulating the same with in the MPEG-2 transport stream , is this true ? if it's true then please guide me on To decode this MPEG-4 Part 10 content which is encapsulated with in the MPEG-2 TS do we require both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 part 10 decoder on the IP Set Top BOX ? if so then do we need to pay for the royalty for both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 part 10 ? for the content etc ? 2) what are the other options to transport MPEG-4 Part 10 content over IP transport ? apart from encapsulating it within the MPEG-2 TS ? cant we directly transport it over IP without using MPEG-2 TS ? 3) As far as the service provider of IPTV is concern i think MPEG-4 licensing is far more cheaper compared to the MPEG-2 , is this statement true or false ? why ? what are things that service provider is required to considered while estimating the cost of deployment thats related to MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 part 10 regards, Prashant Desai ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.