The document outlines the agenda for a book launch event on a new book about H.264 video coding. It begins with an introduction explaining the need for a new book on H.264 - that H.264 is an important but complicated standard and a better understanding is needed. The document then provides an overview of the book's contents, including chapters on H.264 syntax, prediction, transform and coding, conformance and transport, performance, and extensions. It concludes by inviting questions.

1. Book Launch 16 th June 2010 Iain Richardson

2. 1. Why a new book? 2. What’s in the book 3. Questions Agenda

3. 1. Why a new book? 2. What’s in the book 3. Questions Agenda

4. Because: 1. H.264 is important. 2. H.264 is complicated. 3. A better understanding of H.264 is needed. Why a new book on H.264?

5. H.264 is important

6. 8.4.1.2.1 Derivation process for the co-located 4x4 sub-macroblock partitions Inputs to this process are mbPartIdx and subMbPartIdx. Outputs of this process are the picture colPic, the co-located macroblock mbAddrCol, the motion vector mvCol, the reference index refIdxCol, and the variable vertMvScale (which can be One_To_One, Frm_To_Fld or Fld_To_Frm). Let firstRefPicL1 be the reference picture referred by RefPicList1[ 0 ]. When firstRefPicL1 is a frame or a complementary field pair, let firstRefPicL1Top and firstRefPicL1Bottom be the top and bottom fields of firstRefPicL1, and let the following variables be specified as topAbsDiffPOC = Abs( DiffPicOrderCnt( firstRefPicL1Top, CurrPic )) …… H.264 is complicated Source: Recommendation H.264, page 148 of 540

7. A better understanding ..leads to better products

8. 1. Why a new book? 2. What’s in the book 3. Questions Agenda

10. Introduction Video formats and quality Video coding concepts What is H.264? H.264 syntax H.264 prediction H.264 transform and coding H.264 transport, conformance and licensing H.264 performance Extensions and directions What’s in the book

11. Introduction Video formats and quality Video coding concepts

12. 4. What is H.264? High-level overview Encoder + decoder building blocks Syntax overview

13. 5. H.264 syntax Picture management Syntax structure Macroblock syntax Examples

14. 6. H.264 prediction Intra prediction Inter prediction Filtering

15. 7. H.264 transform and coding Transform Quantization Entropy coding

16. 8. Conformance, transport and licensing How to be compliant Tools + protocols for transport Patents and licensing

17. 9. Performance Experimenting with H.264 Measuring performance Rate control Mode selection

18. 10. Extensions and directions Scalable Video Coding Multiview Video Coding Configurable Video Coding The next standard…

19. 1. Why a new book? 2. What’s in the book 3. Questions Agenda http://vcodex.com/h264book/ [email_address]