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A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression
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A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression

by Cliff Wootton
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
20h 52m
English
Routledge
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MPEG-4 Profiles and Levels

G.1 MPEG-4 Complexity

MPEG-4 is far more complex than earlier video codecs. Indeed, the video coding is expressed only in Parts 2 and 10 of the standard, and these describe two completely separate codecs. First, let’s summarize the component parts in MPEG-4. After that, we will examine the profiles and levels defined for MPEG-4 Part 2. These are many and complex. The H.264 standards group defines a rather smaller set and hence the MPEG-4 Part 10 coding is also simpler. Those will be described separately from MPEG-4 Part 2.

Profiles are intended to define a set of tools that are available, and levels define the range of appropriate values for the properties associated with them.

G.2 MPEG-4 Parts 1 to 21 with Amendments ...

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ISBN: 9780240806303