Books & Courses
Explore 26 curated Books & Courses resources in Intro & Learning — tools, guides, and references for video developers on Awesome Video.
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Books & Courses is a focused collection within Intro & Learning, with 26 curated resources.
Resources
- Circles of ConfusionEBU technical paper on circles of confusion in imaging. Covers optical and resolution considerations for video.
- Communicating Pictures2014-06-20 (1st Edition). Bull, David.
- Computing and Using Video Quality Metrics (Streaming Learning Center)Course on VMAF and quality metrics for encoding professionals.
- EE4C08 (TU Delft)TU Delft lecture notes/slides on image/video compression, covering DSP and JPEG/MPEG2 core math.
- FFmpeg for Adaptive Bitrate Production (Udemy)Hands-on course covering H.264/HEVC/VP9 encoding and HLS/DASH packaging using FFmpeg for adaptive bitrate production.
- Fora Soft — Video Encoding courseFree 6-chapter course on video encoding: pixels, HDR, AV1/VVC, encoder internals, rate control, and quality metrics.
- Fundamentals of Multimedia2022-02-17 (3rd Edition). Ze-Nian Li (Author), Mark S. Drew (Author), Jiangchuan Liu.
- Introduction to Adaptive Bitrate Encoding (Streaming Learning Center)2-hour course by Jan Ozer covering ABR basics, encoding ladder design, and HLS/DASH production.
- Introduction to Streaming Media (Streaming Learning Center)Jan Ozer's foundational streaming media course covering encoding, delivery, and packaging basics.
- MIT 6.441 Information Theory — OCW Lecture NotesMIT OpenCourseWare graduate information theory course covering lossless/lossy coding foundations underlying video codec design.
- NYU ECE 6123 — Image and Video Processing (Yao Wang)Per-week lecture notes including hybrid video coding, rate-distortion mode decision, rate control, GoP structures, H.264/SVC, HEVC and mult…
- SMPTE Essentials of Video and Audio CompressionFormal certification-body cohort course covering standards-based compression from acquisition to distribution.
- SVTA Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Essentials (Micro Course)Vendor-neutral course from Streaming Video Technology Alliance covering ABR end-to-end: packaging, CMAF, encoding ladder design, per-title…
- Stanford CS348K: Video Compression (Traditional and Learned)Graphics/systems course lecture covering both classic block-based codecs and learned neural video compression, public slides.
- Stanford Compression Class ResourcesFree lecture notes plus compression texts and the Stanford Compression Library (Python), used in a real university course.
- Stanford EE368B: Image and Video CompressionBernd Girod's course handouts covering DCT/wavelet transforms, motion compensation, rate-distortion theory, and MPEG/JPEG standards.
- Stanford EE398A — Image and Video Compression (Course Handouts)Complete graduate course slides on entropy coding, rate-distortion theory, transform coding, motion estimation and motion-compensated video…
- Stanford EE398A — Image and Video Compression lecture notesBernd Girod's graduate course handouts on image and video compression, freely available covering entropy coding, transforms, prediction and…
- Streaming Media 101 (Streaming Learning Center)Jan Ozer's structured course on encoding/deploying H.264/HEVC/VP9/AV1 with FFmpeg/HandBrake labs.
- The Good Parts of LibVLCGuide focusing on practical LibVLC usage patterns. Helps developers integrate VLC media framework effectively.
- Versatile Video Coding (VVC): Machine Learning and Heuristics (Springer)2022 monograph presenting five algorithms that cut VVC intra-prediction encoding effort, quantifying VTM's roughly 27x complexity over HM f…
- Video Compression Handbook2018-07-03 (2nd Edition). Beach, Andy; Owen, Aaron.
- Video Compression Techniques for Next Gen Comms Infra (Surrey CPD)UK university short course covering HEVC and MPEG-DASH with labs.
- Video Encoding Course (Pompeu Fabra University)University course site covering video codification systems, lessons plus practical encoding tools.