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References for Chapter 6
Books
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Charles A. Poynton, Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann: 2003)
A detailed and highly technical account of video technologies, covering digital video and its analogue background. Mostly concerned with broadcast TV, but still relevant to multimedia.
Web Pages
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Dirac
The BBC’s R and D department’s pages about their wavelet-based video codec. You can find links to the Open Source implementations of Dirac if you want to experiment with it or see how a video codec is implemented.
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MPEG home page
The MPEG organization’s own site, includes some standards documents, although most MPEG standards must be purchased from ISO.
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MPEG.ORG - MPEG Home
Mpeg.org describes itself as “the most complete and comprehensive index of MPEG resources on the Internet”, but doesn’t really go beyond MPEG-2. It does include links to material about MP3 and AAC, though.