A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression

From Sprockets and Rasters to Macro Blocks

Cliff Wootton - Collection Communications Technology

788 pages, parution le 15/06/2005

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Résumé

Leave your math background at home! This book will help you affordably create deliverable, high-quality video and audio with enough background info to help you plan and deploy your own systems.

Key benefits:

Learn from an award-winning technologist of a top media company who knows how to explain codecs in terms you can understand
This entry-level guide contains clear explanations and hundreds of diagrams-no math background needed! Also includes a comprehensive glossary which serves as a useful reference to many technical terms and jargon you will encounter
Learn how to choose the right technique to get the most out of your compression system-saving both storage space and money

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.

L'auteur - 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.

Sommaire

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction to video compression
Why video compression is needed
What are we trying to compress?
Film
Video
Digital Image Formats
Matters Concering Audio
Choosing the right codec
How encoders work
The MPEG-1 codec
The MPEG-2 Codec
The MPEG-4 part 2 codec
The H.264 codec
Encoded output delivered as a bit stream
Live Encoding
Files and storage formats
Tape formats
Commercial issues, DRM and licensing
Network delivery mechanisms
Streaming
Players and platforms
Windows Media
QuickTime
Real Networks
Other player alternatives
Putting video on the web
Digital Television
Digital video on the move
Building your encoding hardware
Setting up your encoding software
Preparing to encode your video
Ingesting your source content
Temporal pre-processing
Spatial pre-processing
Colour correction
Cutting out the noise
Preparing the audio for encoding
Encoding - Go for it!
Where next?
Appendix A-N
Glossary
Bibliography
Webliography
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Focal Press
Auteur(s)	Cliff Wootton
Collection	Communications Technology
Parution	15/06/2005
Nb. de pages	788
Format	19 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1585g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780240806303
ISBN13	978-0-240-80630-3