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Evolution of Video Compression on the Internet

Explore the significance of video compression in advancing the internet, the evolution of compression technology, understanding codecs, flash video importance, encoding video, and future trends in GPU-based encoding. Learn about different codecs, the benefits of compression, and the impact on online content delivery.

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Evolution of Video Compression on the Internet

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  1. Video Compression and the Internet

  2. Need for Compression • Important to advancement of internet • Video prevalent all over the net • Compression has improved greatly over the past 10 years • Helped revolutionize the way internet delivers content

  3. How it works • Exploits flaw in human perception • Algorithms written to do this • Areas of similar color averaged out • Image is the same over period of time • All works to make files smaller, with better quality • Allowing faster transmission online • Able to fit onto ipods, phones, etc

  4. What is a codec? • Allows for the compression (co), and decompression (dec) of a video file • Represents analog information in a digital way • Bitrate – amount of data per second required • Lower is better

  5. List of codecs through the years • MPEG1 • MPEG2 • Sorenson • Realplayer • Quicktime • DivX • XviD • H.264/x264 • VC-1

  6. Importance of flash • Allowed sites like Youtube to flourish • Unified the standard of how to deliver video • Prior to flash video, different standards, confusing • Including Windows Media player, Quicktime, Realplayer and more • Everybody already has flash, so no ambiguity

  7. The flash video format • Flv files embedded in websites • Contain video files • H.264, VP6, Sorenson H.263 • Previous flash versions starting at 6 supported different formats

  8. Why encode video • Too large to upload to YouTube • 1gb file limit • Most digital cameras use poor codecs with little to no compression, wasting hard drive space, also making sending over internet unfeasible • Rip your dvds to your computer • Digitalize old home movies on analog sources for preservation and sharing online • To put on your portable media player (ipod) • Use of filters to improve video quality from bad sources

  9. What does it take to encode video? • Choose a codec • h.264/x264 and xvid are common • A video file • An encoder • FFMpeg, MeGUI, Handbrake

  10. What’s next • GPU based encoding • Badaboom • Uses Nvidia graphics cards • Faster than CPU • Quality an issue currently

  11. Further Information • www.doom9.org • www.videohelp.com

  12. Sources • http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/gknot-main6.htm • http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/video4_2.htm#Interesting • http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flv/pdf/video_file_format_spec_v10.pdf • http://www.kaourantin.net/2007/08/what-just-happened-to-video-on-web_20.html • http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/is_era_gpubased_computing_really_upon_us • http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3339&p=2

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