A practical guide to video and audio compression : from sprockets and rasters to macroblocks /
Cliff Wooton.
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal, c2005.
- xii, 787 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction to Video Compression (Page-1), Why Video Compression in Needed (Page-15), What are we Typing to Compress (Page-35), Film (Page-43), Video (Page-77), Digital Image Formats (Page-115), Matters Concerning Audio (Page-147), Choosing the Right Codec (Page-171), How Encoders Work (Page-187), The MPEG-1 Codec (Page-195), The MPEG-2 Codec (Page-217), The MPEG-4 Part 2 Codec (Page-227), The H. 264 Codec (Page-237), Encoded Output Delivered as a Bit Stream (Page-251), Live Encoding (Page-265), Files and Storage Formats (Page-277), Tape Formats (Page-301), Commercial Issues Digital Rights Management and Licensing (Page-307), Network Delivery Mechanisms (Page-333), Streaming (Page-345), Players and Platforms (Page-363), Windows Media (Page-373), Quick Time (Page-383), Real Networks (Page-397), Other Player Alternatives (Page-407), Putting Video on the Web (Page-415), Digital Television (Page-427), Digital Video on the Move (Page-439), Building your Encoding Hardware (Page-445), Preparing to Encode Your Video (Page-521), Ingesting Your Source Contact (Page-529), Temporal Preprocessing (Page-537), Spatial Preprocessing (Page-549), color Correction (Page-567), Cutting Out the Noise (Page-581), Preparing the Audio for Encoding (Page-599), Encoding (Page-611), Where shall we go Next? (Page-619).
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Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques. Video compression.