A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression

From Sprockets and Rasters to Macro Blocks

A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression on ScienceDirect(Opens new window)
Paperback, 800 Pages
Published: APR-2005
ISBN 10: 0-240-80630-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-240-80630-3
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS


By
Cliff Wootton, Cliff Wootton was the technical systems architect in the BBC News Interactive TV group. This team pioneered the "News Loops" service, which was nominated for a BAFTA Technology award and has won a Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation. His current research projects are investigating new ways to build interactive content creation tools for the emerging IPTV platforms.

Description
Learn all about Codecs--how they work, as well as design and implementation with this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to compression. After reading this book, you will be able to prepare and distribute professional audio and video on any platform including streamed to the web, broadcast on-air, stored in PVRs, Burned onto CD-ROMs or DVDs, delivered by broadband, or viewed in Kiosk applications, PDA devices, and mobile phones.

Audience:
People involved in practical deployment of encoders - this is a function of nearly every tech team involved in some form of digital video!


 
Last update: 5 Nov 2011