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Hundreds of viewers and tens of questions.. Thanks for watching the webcast yesterday, "An Introduction to H.264". If you missed it, you can watch the recording here.

I hope to do more webcasts, explaining H.264/AVC in more depth, perhaps starting with a "book launch" webcast.

If you liked the webcast or any of the other resources on this site, please tell me about it and/or click the "Share This" link on any of the pages on the website.

- Iain Richardson

Today's webcast is an introduction to H.264/AVC. You can register for free at:
http://tinyurl.com/h264talk1 . It starts at 4pm GMT. Note that the UK is NOT yet on Summer Time, so that's 12noon on the East Coast (US), 11am in Texas, 9am on the West Coast. Hope you can join the webcast...
Iain.

I'll be presenting a free webcast on H.264/AVC in association with DCKTN on 22nd March 2010. I will cover the basics of H.264 technology and I'll take questions from participants.

The talk will be presented live on 22nd March at 4pm GMT, that's 11am EST / 10am CST / 8am PST.

You can register here:
http://tinyurl.com/h264talk1

Hope you can tune in....
Iain.

I've put up a page with some information about my new book, H.264 Advanced Video Compression:
http://www.vcodex.com/h264book/

Apart from chapters 2 and 3 (video quality and video compression concepts), the material has been completely rewritten. Chapters 4-7 cover the H.264 standard in detail and chapters 8-10 cover performance, implementation and extensions. Please get in touch if you have any questions about the book.
- Iain.

Labels: H.264 book

I'll be at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on 9 and 10 January 2010, then at the ICCE conference to present a paper on our configurable video coding work. If you're at CES and would like to meet to discuss video coding technology, let me know.
- Iain Richardson

MPEG have set out a timetable for development of a new video coding standard, currently known as High Performance Video Coding (HVC). A formal Call for Proposals will be issued in January 2010 and registration, submission and evaluation of proposals will take place from February to April 2010. The aim will be to show significantly better coding performance than H.264/AVC. The best technical features of the proposals will be incorporated into a Test Model, a working reference codec, in late 2010. A new standard could be published in 2012/2013. The new standard is likely to deliver better compression performance for current and emerging video applications, probably at the expense of increased computational cost.

- Iain.