Tomi Engahl's Video Technology Page
Index
Video system hardware
Handbooks
Misc links
Here is some introductory material on video signals.
Check those if you are looking for basic information on video signals.
Standards info
Composite video formats
Component video format
What standard is used where
Web sites with standard on-line
Advanced video standards
Program Delivery Control
- PDC Explained - information about program delivery control for VCRs
- PDC Live - Programme Delivery Control information home page
- PDC-OnAir YLE TV 1 - what PDC data is sent out just now with description (in Finnish)
Teletext
Film to video conversion
Other
General
Detailed information
- A Technical Introduction to Digital Video - introduction chapers of the book
- ATSC Standards - digital television standards for USA
- A Tutorial on Magic Numbers for High Definition Electronic Production - also info on magic numers in NTSC and PAL systems
- Color Spaces - RGB, YUV, YCbCr described, Powerpoint presentation, part of Video Demystified Multimedia Presentations
- DV & Firewire Central
- Letich Application notes - lots of useful notes on digial and analogue video
- Report of the Task Force on Digital Image Architecture - information about many digital video details
- Serial Video Basics - pdf file from Leitch
- Snell & Wilcox Online Bookshelf - compression, motion compensation, encoding, decoding, standard conversion, DTV broadcaster guide, DTV production, aspect ratio conversion, transition to DTV
- Video Demystified - introduction to very good video book
- Video Sampling - some details of most common sampling schemes in use today
Video compression
- Compression Technology - introduction to JPEG and MPEG, VideoCD, DVD, specification and resource links
- Data Compression - introductory chapter from The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, covers RLE, Huffman, Delta encoding, LZW, DCT, JPEG and MPEG
- DV vs. Betacam SP: 4:1:1 vs. 4:2:2, Artifacts and Other Controversies
- Influence of Compression in the Production Chain - technical report
- MPEG-2 Fundamentals for Broadcast and Post-Production Engineers - good white paper
- MPEG Informations, Questions and Answers
- MPEG Pointers and Resources
- MPEG Video Encoding Standards - lecture slides
- Real World Considerations in a Video Compression System - Conference paper presented at ADVICE, Cambridge 1996
- Stereo/Multiview Image/Video Coding - discussion forum, papers, research groups and test images
- The Ins And Outs Of MPEG
Computer based digital video
Digital TV broadcasting
General
How VCR works
Video tape formats
Mainteance and repairing
Misc
General
Laserdisc
VideoCD
Other
Unsorted links
Tomi Engdahl <tomi.engdahl@hut.fi>
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