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MPEG Handbook
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Author: John Watkinson
List Price: $56.95
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ISBN: 0240516567
Publisher: Focal Press (September, 2001)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 65,472
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Builds on scientific principles, includes audio
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 out of 5
Disappointing coverage of key topics
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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