mir Digital Media Group: Video Library

Here is a little collection of documents which explain various features of digital video.

I spent a lot of time tracking down the right answers to some of these questions, so I am writing them down right here, so that no one will forget!

If you have any corrections, insights, or reports of dead/live links, please send them to dmg @ mir . com.

Software, In-House

• y4mscaler, a video scaler which aims for accuracy and ease-of-use.

Internal Documents

• Background Information
  • Interlace, Interleave, and Field Dominance
  • What is Y'CbCr?
  • Chroma Subsampling Standards
  • Aspect Ratios and Frame Sizes
• MJPEGtools Howto's, Primers, Tutorials
  • Creating MPEG Still Images for VCD/SVCD

External References

• Useful Software and Related Information
  • MJPEG Tools
    • MJPEG Tools Howto
  • GNU VCDImager
  • Matti Haveri's hints for SVCD on a Macintosh
  • a Blender Homepage
• General Information on Digital Video
  • Poynton's Articles
    • Poynton's Color FAQ
    • Poynton's Gamma FAQ
  • "Colour Space Conversions"(pdf), Adrian Ford and Alan Roberts (hosted at Poynton's site)
  • The Lurker's Guide to Video, Lurkertech
    • Fields: Why Video Is Crucially Different from Graphics
    • Definitions: F1/F2, Interleave, Field Dominance, and More
    • Where Does Field Dominance Originate?
    • The Pixel Rosetta Stone: Packings and Colorspaces
  • Matrix Operations for Image Processing, Paul Haeberli
  • Rendering in Y'CbCr, Apple Developer Connection
  • Uncompressed Y'CbCr Video in QuickTime Files
  • ATSC Standards Documents
    • ATSC Document A/53B: Revision B to ATSC Digital Television Standard (pdf)
    • ATSC Document A/54: Guide to the Use of the ATSC Digital Television Standard (pdf)
    • ATSC Document A/63: Standard for Coding 25/50 Hz Video (pdf)
  • Adam Wilt's DV Pix - Sampling Methods
  • MPEG-2 FAQ, v3.4, Question #57 (v3.8 is newer, but that information is mis-formatted.)
  • DVCAM Format Overview, Sony
• Even More Digital Graphics Formats
  • JPEG
    • JPEG Links at jpeg.org.
    • JFIF v1.02 Reference from jpeg.org (PDF)
    • the Independent JPEG Group, "not affiliated with the ISO committee".
  • TIFF
    • the libtiff TIFF library
    • TIFF Specification, v6.0 at Adobe (PDF)

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Last modified: Tue Oct 14 13:36:50 EDT 2003

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