Video Compression Handbook by Andy Beach & Aaron Owen

Author:Andy Beach & Aaron Owen [Beach, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2018-06-27T05:00:00+00:00

What surprises you most about video compression today?

I’m surprised that Internet streaming has been around for two decades and we still haven’t yet agreed on a single video codec for streaming that’s both free and universally supported.

How has video compression changed in the time you’ve been working with it?

Besides the obvious fact that it keeps getting better, the biggest change I’ve seen in the past 20 years is the general acceptance of software-based video tools and open source software in particular. There was a time not so long ago when suggesting to a customer that a free open source encoder could produce better video quality than a $25,000 rackmount hardware encoder would’ve been greeted with utmost incredulity. Now it’s almost standard practice for Fortune 500 software companies to build their encoding platforms on top of FFmpeg or x264, open source tools that were once used almost exclusively by digital video hobbyists like myself. So, I find it somewhat amusing that FFmpeg went from being a dirty word to being a job requirement.

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