Introduction to Digital Video, 2nd Edition

Introduction to Digital Video, 2nd Edition

by John Watkinson
Released September 2012
Publisher(s): Routledge
ISBN: 9781136027611

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Book description

Covers the essential fundamentals of digital video: from video principles, to conversion, compression, coding, interfaces and output.

Written for television professionals needing to apply digital video systems, equipment and techniques to multimedia and /or digital TV applications, as well as for computer system designers, engineers, programmers, or technicians needing to learn how to apply digital video to computer systems and applications. The text is based on the acclaimed industry `bible' The Art of Digital Video, but covers only the essential parts of this larger reference work.

It starts right from the basics from what a digital signal is to the how digital video can be applied.

John Watkinson is an international consultant in Audio, Video and Data Recording. He is a fellow of the AES, a member of the British Computer Society and Chartered Information Systems Practitioner. He presents lectures, seminars, conference papers and training courses worldwide. He is author of many other Focal press books including MPEG2, Art of Digital Video, Art of Digital Audio, Art of Sound Reporduction, Introduction to Digital Audio, Television Fundamentals and Audio for Television. He is also co-author of the Digital Interface Handbook and a contributor to The Loudspeaker and Headphone Handbook.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Introducing digital video
    1. 1.1 Video as data
    2. 1.2 What is a video signal?
    3. 1.3 Why binary?
    4. 1.4 Colour
    5. 1.5 Why digital?
    6. 1.6 Some digital video processes outlined
    7. 1.7 Time compression and expansion
    8. 1.8 Error correction and concealment
    9. 1.9 Product codes
    10. 1.10 Shuffling
    11. 1.11 Channel coding
    12. 1.12 Video compression and MPEG
    13. 1.13 Disk-based recording
    14. 1.14 Rotary-head digital recorders
    15. 1.15 DVD and DVHS
    16. 1.16 Digital television broadcasting
    17. 1.17 Networks
  8. 2. Video principles
    1. 2.1 The eye
    2. 2.2 Gamma
    3. 2.3 Scanning
    4. 2.4 Synchronizing
    5. 2.5 Bandwidth and definition
    6. 2.6 Aperture effect
    7. 2.7 Colour
    8. 2.8 Colour displays
    9. 2.9 Colour difference signals
    10. 2.10 Motion portrayal and dynamic resolution
    11. 2.11 Progressive or interlaced scan?
    12. 2.12 Binary codes
    13. 2.13 Introduction to digital logic
    14. 2.14 The computer
    15. 2.15 The processor
    16. 2.16 Timebase correction
    17. 2.17 Multiplexing
    18. 2.18 Statistical multiplexing
    19. 2.19 Filters and transforms
    20. 2.20 FIR filters
    21. 2.21 Sampling-rate conversion
    22. 2.22 Transforms and duality
    23. 2.23 The Fourier transform
    24. 2.24 The discrete cosine transform (DCT)
    25. 2.25 Modulo-n arithmetic
    26. 2.26 The Galois field
    27. 2.27 The phase-locked loop
  9. 3. Conversion
    1. 3.1 Introduction to conversion
    2. 3.2 Sampling and aliasing
    3. 3.3 Reconstruction
    4. 3.4 Aperture effect
    5. 3.5 Two-dimensional sampling
    6. 3.6 Choice of sampling rate
    7. 3.7 Jitter
    8. 3.8 Quantizing
    9. 3.9 Introduction to dither
    10. 3.10 Requantizing and digital dither
    11. 3.11 Basic digital-to-analog conversion
    12. 3.12 Basic analog-to-digital conversion
    13. 3.13 Oversampling
    14. 3.14 Gamma in the digital domain
    15. 3.15 Colour in the digital domain
  10. 4. Digital video processing
    1. 4.1 A simple digital vision mixer
    2. 4.2 Keying
    3. 4.3 Digital video effects
    4. 4.4 Graphics
    5. 4.5 Applications of motion compensation
    6. 4.6 Motion-compensated standards conversion
    7. 4.7 De-interlacing
    8. 4.8 Noise reduction
  11. 5. Video compression and MPEG
    1. 5.1 Introduction to compression
    2. 5.2 What is MPEG?
    3. 5.3 Spatial and temporal redundancy in MPEG
    4. 5.4 I and P coding
    5. 5.5 Bidirectional coding
    6. 5.6 Spatial compression
    7. 5.7 A bidirectional coder
    8. 5.8 Handling interlaced pictures
    9. 5.9 An MPEG-2 coder
    10. 5.10 The elementary stream
    11. 5.11 An MPEG-2 decoder
    12. 5.12 Coding artifacts
    13. 5.13 Processing MPEG-2 and concatenation
  12. 6. Digital coding principles
    1. 6.1 Introduction
    2. 6.2 Types of transmission channel
    3. 6.3 Transmission lines
    4. 6.4 Types of recording medium
    5. 6.5 Magnetic recording
    6. 6.6 Azimuth recording and rotary heads
    7. 6.7 Optical and magneto-optical disks
    8. 6.8 Equalization and data separation
    9. 6.9 Slicing and jitter rejection
    10. 6.10 Channel coding
    11. 6.11 Simple codes
    12. 6.12 Group codes
    13. 6.13 Randomizing and encryption
    14. 6.14 Partial response
    15. 6.15 Synchronizing
    16. 6.16 Basic error correction
    17. 6.17 Concealment by interpolation
    18. 6.18 Parity
    19. 6.19 Block and convolutional codes
    20. 6.20 Cyclic codes
    21. 6.21 Introduction to the Reed-Solomon codes
    22. 6.22 Correction by erasure
    23. 6.23 Interleaving
    24. 6.24 Product codes
  13. 7. Disks in digital video
    1. 7.1 Types of disk
    2. 7.2 Magnetic disks
    3. 7.3 Accessing the blocks
    4. 7.4 Servo-surface disks
    5. 7.5 Winchester technology
    6. 7.6 The disk controller
    7. 7.7 Defect handling
    8. 7.8 RAID arrays
    9. 7.9 Disk servers
    10. 7.10 Optical disk principles
    11. 7.11 Focus and tracking systems
    12. 7.12 Structure of a DVD player
    13. 7.13 Non-linear video editing
    14. 7.14 The structure of a workstation
    15. 7.15 Locating the edit point
    16. 7.16 Editing with disk drives
  14. 8. Introduction to the digital VTR
    1. 8.1 History of DVTRs
    2. 8.2 The rotary-head tape transport
    3. 8.3 Digital video cassettes
    4. 8.4 DVTR block diagram
    5. 8.5 Operating modes of a DVTR
    6. 8.6 Confidence replay
    7. 8.7 Colour framing
    8. 8.8 Timecode
    9. 8.9 Picture in shuttle
    10. 8.10 Digital Betacam
    11. 8.11 DVC and DVCPRO
    12. 8.12 The D-9 format
    13. 8.13 Digital audio in VTRs
    14. 8.14 AES/EBU compatibility
  15. 9. Digital communication
    1. 9.1 Introduction
    2. 9.2 Production-related interfaces
    3. 9.3 SDI
    4. 9.4 SDTI
    5. 9.5 ASI
    6. 9.6 AES/EBU
    7. 9.7 Telephone-based systems
    8. 9.8 Digital television broadcasting
    9. 9.9 MPEG packets and time stamps
    10. 9.10 Program clock reference
    11. 9.11 Program Specific Information (PSI)
    12. 9.12 Transport stream multiplexing
    13. 9.13 Broadcast modulation techniques
    14. 9.14 OFDM
    15. 9.15 Error correction in digital television broadcasting
    16. 9.16 DVB
    17. 9.17 ATSC
    18. 9.18 Networks
    19. 9.19 FireWire
    20. 9.20 Broadband networks and ATM
  16. Glossary
  17. Index

Product information

  • Title: Introduction to Digital Video, 2nd Edition
  • Author(s): John Watkinson
  • Release date: September 2012
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781136027611