In video compression, interframe coding encodes the differences between frames rather than compressing each full frame. It provides substantial compression for motion sequences because only a small ...

From the introduction of the DV format, most camcorders have used DVC, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 (H.264/AVC) compression. These codecs can be placed into one of two categories: intraframe and interframe. Color ...

A visual information source requires a transmission or storage medium to convey its message to the observer. The fidelity of transmission and reproduction of the message is closely related to and ...

As you would suspect, not all encoding tools address these options the same way. For example, when encoding with the Apple H.264 codec, Apple Compressor only supports the Baseline and Main Profiles, ...

Putting video onto the web, or even mobile devices, isn’t difficult, but doing it well is tough. There are a huge number of variables to worry about, and the best choice for one video may not work ...

A couple of months ago, I was chosen as a member of the inaugural Streaming Media All-Star team. There was a fun video montage presenting images of each of us on baseball cards, with voice over by ...