scope:

This part of ISO/IEC 13522 specifies the coded representation of final-form multimedia and hypermedia information objects that are interchanged as units within or across services and applications, by any means of interchange (eg. storage, focal area network, wide area telecommunication, broadcast telecommunications or broadcast networks). These objects, called MHEG objects, define the structure of a multimedia presentation.

These objects provide the following functionalities:

- final-form representation,

- systems with minimal resources,

- interactivity and multimedia synchronisation,

- real-time presentation,

- real-time interchange,

as a common base for many multimedia and hypermedia applications.

This part of ISO/IEC 13522 defines:

- the specifications of the MHEG objects without regard for the underlying representation coded representation,

- the base-coded representation, using the ASN-1 representation.

(Other types of coded representation may be specified in other parts of ISO/IEC 13522.)