Compression for Great Video and Audio
eBook - ePub

Compression for Great Video and Audio

Master Tips and Common Sense

  1. 641 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Compression for Great Video and Audio

Master Tips and Common Sense

About this book

Learn how to compress video and audio with optimal quality and minimal hassles. Renowned expert Ben Waggoner teaches you to improve the quality of your final content and develop effective workflows. Understand the basic concepts of vision and hearing, apply that knowledge in the context of compression, then move onto practical, applicable information for creating, editing, and compressing the best video and audio, whether you're delivering for the web, DVD, Blu-ray, phones, or beyond.

Clear examples of how to make the best choices in real-world projects

Covers Mac and Windows products for a complete look at today's compression technologies: all the different tools, codecs, and formats for different kinds of deliverables are described, focusing on how to pick the right options for particular projects, players, and sources

Formats

Windows Media

QuickTime

Flash FLV and F4V

MPEG-4 and H.264

MPEG-2

Ogg Vorbis and Theora

Silverlight and Smooth Streaming

Devices

iPod and iPhone

Zune HD

Playstation Portable

Playstation 3

Xbox 360

DVD and Blu-ray

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780240812137
eBook ISBN
9781136064531
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Film & Video
Index
Computer Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Preface: Quick-Start Guide to Common Problems
  8. Chapter 1. Seeing and Hearing
  9. Chapter 2. Uncompressed Video and Audio: Sampling and Quantization
  10. Chapter 3. Fundamentals of Compression
  11. Chapter 4. The Digital Video Workflow
  12. Chapter 5. Production, Acquisition, and Post Production
  13. Chapter 6. Preprocessing
  14. Chapter 7. Using Video Codecs
  15. Chapter 8. Using Audio Codecs
  16. Chapter 9. MPEG 1 and 2
  17. Chapter 10. MP3
  18. Chapter 11. MPEG-4
  19. Chapter 12. MPEG-4 part 2 Video Codec
  20. Chapter 13. Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and M4A
  21. Chapter 14. H.264
  22. Chapter 15. FLV
  23. Chapter 16. Windows Media
  24. Chapter 17. VC-1
  25. Chapter 18. Windows Media Audio
  26. Chapter 19. Ogg
  27. Chapter 20. RealMedia
  28. Chapter 21. Bink
  29. Chapter 22. Web Video
  30. Chapter 23. Optical Disc: DVD, Blu-Ray, and ROM
  31. Chapter 24. Phones and Devices
  32. Chapter 25. Flash
  33. Chapter 26. Silverlight
  34. Chapter 27. Media on Windows
  35. Chapter 28. QuickTime and Mac OS
  36. Index
  37. Compression Tools

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