Vcodex: H.264 / AVC Video Compression Tutorials

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What is H.264/AVC?

H.264 / Advanced Video Coding (AVC) is an industry standard for video compression. It is also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 and is a successor to earlier standards such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Click on the links to download tutorials on H.264 / AVC. You are free to download these documents for personal use. You must not publish or distribute any material from these documents without permission.

What is H.264 ? PDF ; HTML	March 07 - a short , non-technical introduction to H.264.
Video Compression Patents	March 08 - an overview of patents and IPR related to video compression.
Introduction to H.264	Original (technical) introduction to H.264.
H.264 Intra Prediction	Prediction within a frame.
H.264 Inter Prediction	Motion compensated prediction.
H.264 Transform and Quantization	The H.264/AVC integer transform.
H.264 Loop Filter	Built-in deblocking filter.
H.264 Variable Length Coding	Context adaptive variable length coding (entropy coding)
Introduction to CABAC	Context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (entropy coding)
H.264 Picture Management	Draft - to be updated

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