Videoconferencing and Videotelephony - Technology and Standards, Second Edition

This text provides a detailed summary of emerging standards for audio-visual systems and multimedia applications. It offers information on video and speech coding techniques coupled with extensive coverage of standards for communication of multimedia signals. The text details compression techniques and standards, and addresses the technologies of video and audio compression, data communication protocols, digital TV, and digital audio and multimedia. In this second edition, information is offered on the H.324M standard for transmitting multimedia signals over mobile networks, and details on advanced coding standards such as H.263 and MDEG-4.