Cliff Wootton

A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression

From Sprockets and Rasters to Macro Blocks

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Key benefits: * Learn from an award-winning technologist for 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 190mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1581g
• ISBN-13: 9780240806303
• ISBN-10: 0240806301
• Artikelnr.: 21679934

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction to video compression
Chapter 2: Why video compression is needed
Chapter 3: What are we trying to compress?
Chapter 4: Film
Chapter 5: Video
Chapter 6: Digital Image Formats
Chapter 7: Matters Concering Audio
Chapter 8: Choosing the right codec
Chapter 9: How encoders work
Chapter 10: The MPEG-1 codec
Chapter 11: The MPEG-2 Codec
Chapter 12: The MPEG-4 part 2 codec
Chapter 13: The H.264 codec
Chapter 14: Encoded output delivered as a bit stream
Chapter 15: Live Encoding
Chapter 16: Files and storage formats
Chapter 17: Tape formats
Chapter 18: Commercial issues, DRM and licensing
Chapter 19: Network delivery mechanisms
Chapter 20 Streaming
Chapter 21: Players and platforms
Chapter 22: Windows Media
chapter 23: QuickTime
Chapter 24: Real Networks
Chapter 25: Other player alternatives
Chapter 26: Putting video on the web
Chapter 27: Digital Television
Chapter 28: Digital video on the move
Chapter 29: Building your encoding hardware
Chapter 30: Setting up your encoding software
Chapter 31: Preparing to encode your video
Chapter 32: Ingesting your source content
Chapter 33: Temporal pre-processing
Chapter 34: Spatial pre-processing
Chapter 35: Colour correction
Chapter 36: Cutting out the noise
Chapter 37: Preparing the audio for encoding
Chapter 38: Encoding - Go for it!
Chapter 39: Where next?
Appendix A-M