Compression for Great Video and Audio - Master Tips and Common Sense

Helps you to learn how to compress video and audio with optimal quality and minimal hassles. This title lets you understand the basic concepts of vision and hearing, apply that knowledge in the context of compression, and move onto practical, applicable information for creating, editing, and compressing the video and audio.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Seeing and Hearing; Chapter 2 Uncompressed Video and Audio; Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Compression; Chapter 4 The Digital Video Workflow; Chapter 5 Production, Acquisition, and Post Production; Chapter 6 Preprocessing; Chapter 7 Using Video Codecs; Chapter 8 Using Audio Codecs; Chapter 9 MPEG 1 and 2; Chapter 10 MP3; Chapter 11 MPEG-4; Chapter 12 MPEG-4 part 2 Video Codec; Chapter 13 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and M4A; Chapter 14 H.264; Chapter 15 FLV; Chapter 16 Windows Media; Chapter 17 VC-1; Chapter 18 Windows Media Audio; Chapter 19 Ogg; Chapter 20 RealMedia; Chapter 21 Bink; Chapter 22 Web Video; Chapter 23 Optical Disc; Chapter 24 Phones and Devices; Chapter 25 Flash; Chapter 26 Silverlight; Chapter 27 Media on Windows; Chapter 28 QuickTime and Mac OS;

Product details

• Authors: Ben Waggoner, Ben (Ben Waggoner cofounded the pioneering digital media services company Journeyman Digital. Ben is now Principal Video Strategist for Microsoft's Silverlight platform.) Waggoner, Waggoner Ben
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2009
• EAN: 9780240812137
• ISBN: 978-0-240-81213-7
• No. of pages: 624
• Series: Focal Press; DV Expert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Television & Video, Television technology