Digital Video and Audio Compression

A concise,readable account of the compression technologies crucial to the New Media age This is a chronicle of the basic technologies,infrastructures,costs,and applications of digital video and audio compression. Delivering a concise account of compression's terms,techniques,standards,and tricks in an easy-to-read style,it fills a huge gap for everyone from engineers to executives. . . and those currently working with digital media as well as those who would like to. No other single source provides such a clear overview of the technologies that are revolutionzing modes and means of communication around the glove. You'll find straight talk about: The basic principles underlying digital signal processing and compression. ; How human beings see and hear,in relation to how audio and video are reproduced. ; All major existing and emerging compression standards; video compression techniques such as differential pulse code modulation,transform coding,and vector quantization. ; Adaptive pulse code modulation and other audio compression techniques. ; Compression and reproduction requirementsof a wide variety of different applications,including videoconferencing. If the fast,creative,and cost-effective transmission of sights and sounds is a subject about which you need to know,Digital Video and Audio Compression is a must read.