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Transporting Compressed Digital Video (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

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The books included many good contents on MPEG-2 transport, such as how to generate timestamps and to perform video buffer management. It is quite useful! At least, I learned and it helped my work.

My team is working on H.264 video over a MPEG-2 transport stream packet. This book helps a lot on learning systems timing, which is hard to find from any books. I don't understand why so many books discuss about MPEG video, but very few tells about systems timing. Where are those "Professors" ?

The content is original, which cannot be found in other books with the same topic. However, I think the book is overpriced.

A good book ... many sections are new to me ( I didn't find them in other books )... interesting topics ...

The book is good because no one provided many details as given in this book. But just as other Kluwer books, it is over-priced.

The book contains a good coverage of the material related to video buffer and timestamps.This book deals with the intricacies of the video transport and it presents separate sections on key components of video transport and topics on vdieo system design like buffer management, multiplexing, system timing and other issues on transmission of coded video. Author provides a good reference on the MPEG-2 video transport system.

Clearly, this book includes many real stuffs. It does show experience and knowledge on MPEG-2 systems. Hard to get these kind of references for college professors. Most of the books on compression write or use the same materials, but this one doesn't. I like it (even with all the typos -- editor or author should correct them! many typos).

This is a good reference for students to understand issues in the MPEG-2 video transport process.

There are many books discussing MPEG video compression. But very few of them actually teach about how to transport compressed video. This book has a reasonably in-depth presentation and coverage of principles and methods on synchronization, buffer management, rate control, time-stamping of compressed video with good examples and applications.

This book offers a good intro for someone just entering the field of digital video transport; however, for a well exposed individual operating in this space, it is weak. As my background is in digital signal processing and comm systems, I have read and seen better materials, because of this I have to consider it as extremely overpriced. Its worth in my opinion is at most $80.00.