April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
20h 52m
English
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.
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