OT: recommend basic books on MPEG and encoding?

tfc wrote on 11/18/2003, 2:47 AM

I am still a newbie at this thing, but I'm learning lots reading this forum! Thanks, but I would like to learn more about the technical aspect of MPEG encoding. When I go to the render screen in Vegas and it has all of those myriad of combinations for encoding, I would like to understand what that all means and start being creative with the MPEG process. Does anyone have any recommendations for any beginner books that explain the whole MPEG process that are not too technically overwhelming for a beginner? If not, how about any websites? Thanks everyone!

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TimmyRaa wrote on 11/18/2003, 7:52 AM

Not sure about books, but I did come across some fairly well written articles leading off of http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ the other day.

One that you may be interested in is http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html, although it deals with TMPGEnc, most of the encoding theory is the same.

gold wrote on 11/18/2003, 8:39 AM

The text book I chose for the course I taught was "Video Demystified" ISBN
1-878707-23-x. I'm sure its dated but the MPEG 1/2/4/7 part hasn't changed. It didn't cover wavelet (JPEG2000) and the newer compression schemes but Discrete Cosine Transform, Run Length Encoding, IPB frames, and Truncation is covered with tables and header appendecis as well as a cd of mpeg source code. I found the best info at the mpeg and jpeg committtee web sites including source code--search on mpeg [you will get 10 porn sites for every technical one so be careful what you click on] for the latest.