Digital Video and Audio CompressionHere is a fully readable introduction to the basic technologies, infrastructures, costs, and applications for digital audio and video compression. Delivering a concise account of compression's terms, techniques, and tricks in an easy-to-read style, it covers the basic principles underlying digital signal processing and compression; how human beings see and hear; how audio and video are reproduced; all of the existing and emerging compression standards; video and audio compression techniques; and compression and reproduction requirements of different applications, including videoconferencing. |
Contents
Theory and Practice | 1 |
Processing Video for Compression | 31 |
Coding | 51 |
Copyright | |
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algorithm amplitude applications audio and video band splitting bandwidth bit rate block matching buffer bytes c₁ CD-I CD-ROM channel clock code book code vectors code word codec coder coding errors coefficients color compact disc data compression data rate decoder decompression decorrelation disc DPCM effect elementary stream encoder entropy example Figure filter format frame frequency gray levels HDTV Huffman Huffman code IEEE Trans input signal interframe inverse lattice VQ layer linear quantizer low-pass memory method modulation motion compensation MPEG noise NTSC output PCI bus picture content picture signal pixels possible prediction error predictor quantization error random VQ reconstruction levels result s₁ sampling SECAM segment shown in Fig spectrum standard subband coding television tion transform coding transmission transmitted transport stream ture Vector Quantization video capture video CD Video for Windows word length zero