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by John Watkinson (Author) "MPEG is actually an acronym for the moving Pictures Experts Group which was formed by the ISO (International Standard) to set standards for audio and..." (more)
Key Phrases: optic flow axis, bidirectional coding, texture padding, Audio Eng, Focal Press, New York (more...)

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No book can claim to be a definitive book on a given technology. Technologies develop too fast. This book, however, deserves to be acclaimed as the definitive book on general MPEG aspects.
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No book can claim to be a definitive book on a given technology. Technologies develop too fast. This book, however, deserves to be acclaimed as the definitive book on general MPEG aspects.
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Hardcover: 395 pages
Publisher: Focal Press; 1st edition (September 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240516567
ISBN-13: 978-0240516561
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,555,993 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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MPEG is actually an acronym for the moving Pictures Experts Group which was formed by the ISO (International Standard) to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
optic flow axis, bidirectional coding, texture padding, prediction error data, remote vectors, horizontal prediction, mesh coding, vertical prediction, colour difference signals, quantizing range, quantizing intervals, vertical sampling rate, reordering delay, high compression factors, predicted picture, ideal quantizer, masking model, timebase correction, vertical spatial frequency, higher compression factors, quantizing error, null packets, transport stream packets, data separator, elementary stream

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Audio Eng, Focal Press, New York, Digital Betacam, Compact Disc, Program Association Table, Main Level, The Art of Digital Video

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Art of Digital Video, Third Edition by John Watkinson on page 86, page 339, and page 380
Wavelets and Filter Banks by Truong Nguyen Gilbert Strang on page 164
Digital Signal Processing (Addison-Wesley Series in Electrical Engineering) by R. A. Roberts on page 86
A Practical Guide to Splines by Carl De Boor on page 328
Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing by Brian C.J. Moore on page 222

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing coverage of key topics, February 27, 2002

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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Good for introduction of concepts and nomenclature .but ...., February 2, 2005

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The last 1/3 of the book serves as a good introduction to MPEG. All of the concepts and terminology definitions, can be found on the web, but it will take you days to find it all. This book is good if you want to save time looking thru useless web pages that may or may not be correct.

Worth the money? Depends on how valuable your time is.

The first 2/3's is mostly academic principles of sampling/transforms/compression. Engineering text book stuff.

Also, the book is very rough around the edges. Looks like a collection of stuff from different sources. The book jumps all over the place, and leaves things open ended at times.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Builds on scientific principles, includes audio, December 25, 2003

By	Jonah Probell "Jonah Probell" (Silicon Valley & Boston) - See all my reviews

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.

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