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Title: MPEG Handbook by John Watkinson ISBN: 0-240-51656-7 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $56.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Builds on scientific principles, includes audio
Comment: Many video compression books start with a particular specification and then provide background to justify the decisions made in defining the specification. This book approaches video compression starting from scientific principles and building on those towards describing the decisions made in digital compression standards. It describes the history of common analog video formats and proceeds to a solid overview of the MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 digital video compression formats.
Many video compression books completely disregard or gloss over audio. This one includes audio compression with the same complete treatment given to video. The book covers MPEG layer 1-3 audio, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC, and Dolby AC-3.
This book is complete, has no obvious typos, is logically organized, and contains many useful diagrams.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing coverage of key topics
Comment: This book covers a broad range of topics, some relevant to video and audio coding, some not (e.g. digital filters, Fourier transform, phase locked loop !). Key topics such as motion estimation and compensation are not clearly described. The information on the MPEG standards is disappointing, by my reckoning less than 1/3 of the book actually deals with MPEG. There is no mention of MP4 profiles/levels or MP4 systems.
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Title: Video Compression Demystified by Peter Symes ISBN: 0071363246 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 20 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces by Charles Poynton ISBN: 1558607927 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.94 |
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Title: The MPEG-4 Book by Touradj Ebrahimi, Fernando Pereira ISBN: 0130616214 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 10 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $94.00 |
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Title: H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia by Iain E. G. Richardson, Iain E. G. Richardson ISBN: 0470848375 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Video Demystified, 3rd Edition by Keith Jack ISBN: 1878707566 Publisher: LLH Publications Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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