Coding Video: A Practical Guide to HEVC and Beyond [Hardcover]

A fully up-to-date guide to transformative consumer technologies

Video compression  or video coding  has been at the centre of a revolution in the way video is produced, delivered, and consumed. It has made the switch from analogue to digital video possible and has enabled fundamental shifts in the way we now watch video. New video compression standards, together with adaptive streaming protocols, are used to deliver high-quality video to homes and workplaces around the world.

Coding Video provides a practical and comprehensive guide to the new landscape of video coding and video streaming. This book explains the core technologies with a wealth of practical examples and illustrations, covers key standards such as H.265/HEVC and includes an introduction to the new H.266/VVC standard. Coding Video will appeal to engineers, application developers, product designers and digital video professionals, as well as to graduate students and researchers in Engineering, Computer Science and related subjects.

About the Author xvii

Acknowledgements xix

About the Companion Website xxi

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Why Write This Book? 1

1.2 What Is in the Book? 2

1.3 How Should You Use This Book? 3

References 4

2 Video Coding and Video Quality 5

2.1 Introduction 5

2.2 An Overview of Video Coding 6

2.3 Inputs and Outputs 9

2.4 Structural Elements 15

2.5 Prediction 17

2.6 Transform and Quantisation 25

2.7 Bitstream Coding 27

2.8 The Coded Bitstream 30

2.9 Storing and Transmitting the Coded Bitstream 30

2.10 The Decoder 32