Chapter 12: Modern Video Coding Standards: H.264, H.265, and H.266

The MPEG Home Page

This used to be the home page of MPEG, the group who developed the standards for coded representation of digital audio, video, 3D Graphics and genomic data. Since its establishment in 1988, the group had produced standards that help industry offer end users an ever more enjoyable digital media experience.

MPEG FAQ

A web page that contains good FAQs for MPEG.

MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology ...

DivX (Based on MPEG-4)

DivX is a brand of video codec products developed by DivX, LLC.

H.264 Tutorial Resources

H.264 is an industry standard for video compression, the process of converting digital video into a format that takes up less capacity when it is stored or transmitted.

Tutorial: The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard

A set of slides that exlpains H.264.

An MPEG-4 Overview

A web page that contains an overview of MPEG-4.

An MPEG-7 Overview

A web page that contains an overview of MPEG-7.

An MPEG-21 Overview

A web page that contains an overview of MPEG-21.

XML Schema

XML Schema: Part 1 (Structures)

XML Schema: Structures specifies the XML Schema definition language, which offers facilities for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML 1.0 documents, including ...

XML Schema: Part 2 (Datatypes)

XML Schema: Datatypes is part 2 of the specification of the XML Schema language. It defines facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML Schemas as well as other XML specifications ...