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h264_overviewwww.vcodex.com H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 White Paper Overview of H.264 1. Introduction

H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 : Overview

Broadcast television and home entertainment have been revolutionised by the advent of digital TV and DVD-video. These applications and many more were made possible by the standardisation of video compression technology. The next standard in the MPEG series, MPEG4, is enabling a new generation of internet-based video applications whilst the ITU-T H.263 standard for video compression is now widely used in videoconferencing systems. MPEG4 (Visual) and H.263 are standards that are based on video compression (“video coding”) technology from circa. 1995. The groups responsible for these standards, the Motion Picture Experts Group and the Video Coding Experts Group (MPEG and VCE