Total MPEG for engineers

Description

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

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.