Transporting Compressed Digital Video

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Digital Video Transport System

   Pages 1-27

3. Digital Video Compression Schemes

   Pages 29-73

4. Buffer Constraints on Compressed Digital Video

   Pages 75-99

5. System Clock Recovery for Video Synchronization

   Pages 101-131

6. Time-stamping for Decoding and Presentation

   Pages 133-153

7. Video Buffer Management and MPEG Video Buffer Verifier

   Pages 155-171

8. Transcoder Buffer Dynamics and Regenerating Timestamps

   Pages 173-191

9. Transport Packet Scheduling and Multiplexing

   Pages 193-211

10. Examples of Video Transport Multiplexer

    Pages 213-235

11. Back Matter

    Pages 237-261

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The purpose of Transporting Compressed Digital Video is to introduce fundamental principles and important technologies used in design and analysis of video transport systems for many video applications in digital networks. In the past two decades, progress in digital video processing, transmission, and storage technologies, such as video compression, digital modulation, and digital storage disk, has proceeded at an astounding pace. Digital video compression is a field in which fundamental technologies were motivated and driven by practical applications so that they often lead to many useful advances. Especially, the digital video-compression standards, developed by the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), have enabled many successful digital-video applications. These applications range from digital-video disk (DVD) and multimedia CDs on a desktop computer, interactive digital cable television, to digital satellite networks. MPEG has become the most recognized standard for digital video compression. MPEG video is now an integral part of most digital video transmission and storage systems. Nowadays, video compression technologies are being used in almost all modern digital video systems and networks. Not only is video compression equipment being implemented to increase the bandwidth efficiency of communication systems, but video compression also provides innovative solutions to many related vid- networking problems. The subject of Transporting Compressed Digital Video includes several important topics, in particular video buffering, packet scheduling, multiplxing and synchronization.

• MPEG
• Multiplexer
• coding
• communication
• communication systems
• digital video
• information
• network
• satellite
• transmission
• video
• video compression

• San Diego, CA

  Xuemin Chen

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