Coding Video: A Practical Guide to HEVC and Beyond

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.

Iain E. Richardson is the founder of Vcodex BV and was formerly Professor of Video Coding at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of four other books on video coding, which include two widely-cited books on the H.264 Advanced Video Coding standard.