Practical Digital Video with Programming Examples in C

  • Authors:
  • Phillip E. Mattison

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Practical Digital Video with Programming Examples in C
  • Year:
  • 1994

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From the Publisher:Written by an innovator in motion video, this practical, user-friendly guide synthesizes all the vital elements of PC motion video technology in an accessible, nonmathematical way. It helps software developers gain a comprehensive working knowledge of video and multimedia programming. Requiring an essential understanding of electronics and PCs, the book includes twenty software examples with source code to demonstrate state-of-the-art technology and the use of commercial products. This unique resource details the differences between graphical and natural images, and the reasons for compressing image data; describes and compares various kinds of computer displays, including their suitability to natural video; explains various methods of color representation and their particular uses in multimedia; highlights major data compression techniques and their application in multimedia; discusses the full range of available video storage techniques; presents several PC video hardware systems and illustrates their effective use; covers two mainstream PC video environments - Microsoft Video for Windows and Apple Quicktime; spotlights the various ways of processing video information; and includes detailed references for major digital video standards and storage formats.