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0-07-136324-6

Softcover, 100 illus., 340p.   CD-ROM Included

December, 2000

2000

• A plain-English, everything-in-perspective introduction to video compression for video and audio engineers, technicians, hobbyists, and others.
• Examines all the major compression standards--JPEG, MPEG-2, and more--starting with the basics and moving on to compression tools, performance consideraions, transmission/storage quaality, transport schemes, and audio considerations.
• The CD-ROM contains an MPEG encoder with 30 second video samples and ready-to-use JPEG & wavelet compression algorithms.

"Symes's well-written explanations and heavily illustrated examples of video compression make this important topic accessible to readers at all levels. His book is recommended reading for all new members of my group."

Dr. Michael Isnardi

Head, Compression Systems

Sarnoff Corporation

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• The core technology of digital TV ...
• Digital HDTV …
• Movies on DVD …
• Videoconferencing, streaming video, video on the web ...
• Delivering video on demand...
• Scrunching vast image files...  

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