Video Compression Demystified

By Peter Symes

The Complete Guide to Video Compression Video compression is the magic behind digital TV, videoconferencing, DVDs, and Internet video. In Video Compression Demystified, specialist Peter Symes paints... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071363246
• ISBN13: 9780071363242
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Superseded

This book is superseded by my 2003 book "Digital Video Compression", ISBN 0071424873Peter SymesAuthor

Great Book on Fundamentals of DV

I think this book is excellent and so far, the only text I have found that covers the technological fundamentals of digital video without resorting to complex mathematics. The section on the DCT transform is worth the cover price alone as it manages to explain a seriously difficult topic in simple language.The comment in the previous review about MP3 is a little unfair in that MP3 has nothing to do with MPEG-3 at all and is in fact a subset of the MPEG-2 standard (which is covered in detail in the book). MPEG-3 was abandoned early in its development process and hence it is entirely correct that the reviewer should focus on MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.