The VC-1 and H.264 Video Compression Standards for Broadband Video Services

• Main Authors: Lee, Jae-Beom (Author), Kalva, Hari (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: Multimedia Systems and Applications ; 32
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Multimedia information systems.; Computer graphics.; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Computer Communication Networks.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

The MPEG committee standardized the MPEG AVC (H.264) video coding standard in May 2003. The standard has since seen strong interest and adoption from the industry. A competing standard developed by Microsoft, referred to as VC-1, was standardized in SMPTE in April 2006. VC-1 is essentially a standar...