Video: introduction to coding video

A short, easy introduction to video compression or video coding, by Iain Richardson, author of "The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard". Find out:
- why video coding is important
- why video codecs keep getting better
- what are the building blocks of a video codec
- how do partitioning, prediction, transform and entropy coding work
- how much can HEVC compress a video clip.

Play on Youtube

HEVC resources: update

Recent HEVC / H.265 resources:

1. An introduction to High Efficiency Video Coding (PDF)

2. HEVC walkthrough: taking you through some of the features of HEVC 

using the Elecard HEVCAnalyzer (Youtube or Vimeo).

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Walkthrough by Vcodex from vcodex on Vimeo.

3. Getting started with HEVC : how to download + play back HEVC clips

Comments and feedback are always welcome.

- Iain