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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #317085 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Back Cover
CD-ROM WITH ALGORITHMS, ENCODERS, AND PRACTICE CLIPS

YOUR ONE-STOP GUIDE TO THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION!

Without video compression, video streaming -- one of the Internet's great innovations -- would be nothing more than a pipe dream. That's why if digitizing video imagery is part of your work or hobby, here's an info-packed volume you need handy at all times: McGraw-Hill's Digital Video Compression.

Written by a renowned expert in digital technology, Digital Video Compression offers comprehensive coverage on a vast range of digital media technologies and standards. It delivers everything you need to understand the techniques, tricks, and confusing protocols of compression, as well as:
* Fundamentals of compression
* MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compression standards
* JVT / H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 — learn the details of the just-released compression standard
* And much more!

Plus, you get an invaluable CD-ROM of compression tools, encoders, and video clips for practice. With Digital Video Compression, you're sure to stay out in front of this exploding technology!

COVERAGE INCLUDES:
* What Is Compression?
* An Introduction to Images
* Entropy Coding
* Protective Coding
* Transforms
* Quantization
* JPEG
* Motion Compensation
* MPEG-1
* MPEG-2
* MPEG-4
* JVT / H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10
* MPEG-7 and MPEG-21
* Pro-MPEG and MPEG Operating Ranges
* DV Compression
* Wavelets
* JPEG2000
* Audio Compression
* Streaming Media

About the Author
Peter D. Symes is Manager, Advanced Technology at Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions. He is an SMPTE Fellow, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and the author of Video Compression and Video Compression Demystified (both published by McGraw-Hill). He is currently serving as Engineering Vice President for SMPTE.

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Customer Reviews

Very Comprehensive
This is probably the best overall book on video compression on Amazon. I gave it five stars because of that. The only down side is that it is now a bit dated, with the creation of newer and better MPEG4 compression schemes (like H264) since the book was written (2003). If the author came out with a 2nd edition of the book that would be great and I would buy it immediately. Still, this book gave me a very good understanding of the fundamentals of video compression and was well worth it.

Digital Layout
I do not recommend this book to novices but to those with an intermediate level of knowledge in the digital video field. It is an in-depth look into the digital video field that requires the reader to have as mentioned an intermediate level of knowledge.

Too much programmation in it
I thought this would be a book about how to compress things in different modes so you could make the final results nicer...Its too much about creating codecs which I dont wanna do at all !
I was bored at first chapter ;o(