An Introduction to Digital Video Data Compression in Java

Book excerpt: Not long after the birth of the Web, multimedia has become an inseparable part of it. As the growth of the Web accelerates, the demand of multimedia applications and the knowledge of this field explodes. Data compression is the soul of the engine that drives the rapid development of these applications. Audio and image data can be effectively transmitted across the Web or saved in a digital storage medium (DSM) only after they have been compressed. The success of the java-based Android mobile OS has revived people's interest in java. This book presents to you the art of compressing digital video using the java programming language. you the art of compressing digital video using the java programming language. It covers traditional video compression topics including information fundamentals, RGB-YCbCr conversion, integer arithmetic, DCT, IDCT, quantization, run-level encoding, reorder, Huffman encoding, motion estimation and motion compensation. It also discusses the usage of graphics techniques to compress videos.