MPEG TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course studies the MPEG standards for video and audio compression. A major
focus is on MPEG-4 and MPEG-TS. Hands on includes decoding and analysing MPEG
streams.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
* Recognise the main MPEG standards.
* Describe the techniques used in MPEG video and audio compression.
* Compare MPEG2m MPEG4 and MPEG-H.
* Describe the MPEG-TS.
* Analyse MPEG streams.
MPEG TRAINING COURSE DETAILS
* Who will benefit:
Anyone working with MPEG.
* Prerequisites:
None.
* Duration
2 days
MPEG TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS
* Introduction
What is MPEG? MPEG and VCEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG-3, MPEG-4, MPEG-H, others,
codecs and containers, licensing and patents, parts and layers (System,
Video, Audio, others).
* MPEG2
DVD, DVB, characteristics, MPEG2 Part2, audio MPEG2 Part 7 (AAC).
* MPEG tools
Wireshark, vlc, analysers, decoders, ffmpeg, wowzer.
* MPEG2 Video compression
Sampling, bit rates, resolution. Inter and Intra frame coding, I, B, P
frames, GOP, slices, blocks, macroblocks. Motion estimation.
Hands on Analysing MPEG frames.
* MPEG4
Profiles and levels, Enhancements, Parts 1,2,3, Part 10 and AVC, Part 14 and
mp4. Performance versus MPEG2.
* MPEG audio
Coding, frequencies, bit rates.
* MPEG-TS
PES, Transport Streams, TS elements, packets, PID, Programs, PSI, PAT, PMT,
synchronisation, PCR, PTS.
* MPEG-H Part 2
HEVC, benefits, improvements.
* Video codecs
What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation,
encoding, compressing.