VIDEO CODING TRAINING COURSE 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
* Explain how video coding works.
* Describe the main video coding standards.
* Evaluate and compare the major video coding standards.
VIDEO CODING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS
* Who will benefit:
Anyone working with MPEG.
* Prerequisites:
None.
* Duration
2 days
VIDEO CODING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS
* Introduction
Video coding systems, encoding, transmission, decoding. Digital video
formats: Old formats (CIFâ¦), PC formats (VGAâ¦), SD, HD, UHD.
* Video codecs
What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation,
encoding, compressing.
* Codec types
Lossy, lossless, uncompressed. Quality, bandwidth.
* Video
Fps, bitstreams, pictures, frames, fields. Aspect ratios.
* Colour
Colour perception, RGB, YUV, YCbCr sampling, 4:00, 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4.
* Hybrid video coding scheme
Picture partitioning, intra prediction, inter prediction, motion estimation,
residual coding, in loop filtering, entropy coding.
* Containers
Relationship with codecs, audio, video. Audio Video Interleave (.avi), .asf,
QuickTime, AVCHD, Flash, .mp4, 3gp. MPEG-TS.
* MPEG
Analysing MPEG frames.
* Video coding standards
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.