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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 621.38833 EAN: 9780071424875 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0071424873 Label: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: October 02, 2003 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Studio: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Editorial Review: Product Description: This CD-ROM with algorithms, encoders, and practice clips is 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! The book covers: 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; and Streaming Media. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Very ComprehensiveThis 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. Rating: - Digital LayoutI 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. Rating:  - Too much programmation in itI 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( Rating:  - CD-ROM has valueOnly CD-ROM has value, don't like the text. Not very useful to build anything. Rating: - Good as a general introductionI would reccommend this book if you want to learn how compression works, where the limitations come from, where future improvemens may come from and what the standards are all about. You won't find implementation details and mathematical rigour in this book ; its goal is to explain the concepts. |
