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How do video compression standards affect the encoding process?

Explains, Katharina Geutebruck, managing director of Geutebruck GmbH  which manufactures and develops intelligent video security solutions.

 Whenever a new video standard is introduced, a wave of uncertainty goes through the security community, and a few manufacturers see an easy marketing opportunity among disconcerted buyers.

So, if you are currently thinking: ”Should I be demanding H.264 or the latest standard?”, “It’s new, so is it better than previous ones?” or “Does that mean other digital video standards will soon be obsolete?”- then you should read on.

 The first thing to recognize is that a standard does not define the specific process which is used to encode the data. This could be contrary to what you might expect. Just because the two systems use the same standard, it does not indicate that the video output result will be of equal quality or similar utility, in fact it may vary generally.

 The encoding process is defined by the developer’s expertise rather than the video compression standard.

 You can read more in depth about this covering topics like

1. Video compression standard – a set of tools
2. Differences between video compression standards
3. Evaluating video standard selection process

Here: http://www.sourcesecurity.com/news/articles/co-750-ga.3011.html

Yu Kitamura of Sony Professional Solutions Europe explains the benefits of H.264 – the latest video compression technology.  Covering areas like Video compression standards - JPEG / M-JPEG / MPEG-4, Benefits of high-performance video compression technology and H.264 – coding standard of choice.

Read indepth about h.264 here http://www.sourcesecurity.com/news/articles/co-3289-ga.2806.html