Video coding for engineers

Description

This course investigates the characteristics of video
coding with an emphasis on compression and the
standards used in IP networks.

What will you learn

Video coding training course details

Anyone working with MPEG.

None.

2 days

Video coding systems, encoding, transmission,
decoding. Digital video formats: Old formats
(CIF…), PC formats (VGA…), SD, HD, UHD.

What is a CODEC, pictures and audio,
digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding,
compressing.

Lossy, lossless, uncompressed. Quality,
bandwidth.

Fps, bitstreams, pictures, frames, fields. Aspect
ratios.

Colour perception, RGB, YUV, YCbCr sampling,
4:00, 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4.

Picture partitioning, intra prediction, inter
prediction, motion estimation, residual coding, in
loop filtering, entropy coding.

Relationship with codecs, audio, video. Audio
Video Interleave (.avi), .asf, QuickTime, AVCHD,
Flash, .mp4, 3gp. MPEG-TS.

Analysing MPEG frames.

H.264/AVC: Profiles MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames,
GOP. MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9,
AV1. Hands onand levels, how it works.
H.265/HEVC: Profiles and levels, Quadtrees,
slices, how it works.
Open video coding: VP8, VP9, AV1.