Video Compression

By Peter D. Symes

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070633444
• ISBN13: 9780070633445
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Superseded

This book is superseded by my 2003 book "Digital Video Compression", ISBN 0071424873Peter SymesAuthor

Very good but not perfect...

I read the book in about 20 days, so I can say it has not been very heavy. The writer has been very good to explain the subjects, so only a few times it happened to me to read twice a page to understand it (because of the complexity of the matter). Before to read the book I didn't know anything about video compression. Now instead I can say even tougth I'm not able to write routines to handle compressed video streams, I could probably understand what those already existent do.Definitely, like other people said, this book in good for beginners (like me). Anyway, now I think i will buy another one more detailed.PS: I'm from Italy, I have only scholastic knowledge of English but I found this reading very fluent.

Very good basic book on the concept of video compression.

If you are looking for a basic understanding of the various video compression standards, then this book is for you. It starts off very basic and does not go any further than explaining the concepts of compression. There is virtually no math but the writer does do a good job explaining digital video terms and processes. Most of the book is dedicated to covering the Nyquist Theorem, Entorpy, JPEG, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. If you already have a good understanding of these subjects this book is not for you. If you are involved or interested in electronics and are looking to learn more about this subject this would be a good purchase. In few short years the VCR will be going the way of the 8-track and this is the technology that will be taking it?s place.

Excellent introduction to video compression techniques

Definitely, an excellent introductory book on video compressionfundamentals. The book is very well written in a simple and clearway. It explains the basics of audio, image and video compression techniques, with a minimum of math. However, you won't find detailed implementation issues, and it has some mismatches in the examples and in the formulas used. If you know nothing or little about video compression and you don't want to mess with complicated math, this is the book you should read.

Good text for beginners in mpeg and jpeg

Gives a good basic understanding of the compression of mpeg and jpeg. Little or no discussion of avi, dv, mov. The highest level of math is a double summation.Table of contents: (1) What is compression? (2) An intro to Images. talks about sampling (3) Entropy coding. discusses the meaning of entropy and mathimatical basis of it. I learned something here that my college professors could not get across. (4) Predictive coding (5) Transforms. The DCT is discussed here. This transform is used big time in jpeg and mpeg. (6) Quantization. The coefficients of the transforms must be clipped before transmitted. (7)JPEG. Walks you though all the steps on a single image. (8) Motion compensation. How to account for it and treat it. (9) MPEG-1, walks you through it (A) MPEG-2 (B) Audio compression (C) Closing thoughtsI would have still bought this book based on what I know about it now. Stay away from it if you're an expert.Steve (6)