Mpeg-4 Demystified

This text explains how to use the MPEG-4 (Moving Pictures Expert Group), the video compression standard that will make video over the internet technologically and financially feasible. The CD-ROM contains an MPEG encoder with 30-second video samples, compression algorithms, video stills and images.

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The MPEG-4 (Moving Pictures Expert Group) video compression standard will make video over the internet technologically and financially feasible. This book explains how to use the standard to compress and stream your own material. The book includes: annotations of the MPEG-4 standard, in plain English; video and audio coding for MPEG-4; and compression and delivery for ITV (Interactive TV) and DTV (Digital TV). The CD-ROM contains an MPEG encoder with 30-second video samples, ready-to-use compression algorithms, along with video stills, and high-resolution images to fully explicate the differences in compression schemes. This pack should be of interest to video and audio engineers; technicians; hobbyists; broadcasters; and netizens.