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MPEG-2 Video Coding

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Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology

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Digital SDTV (Standard Definition Television) video signals (uncompressed) have a data rate of 270 Mbit/s. This data rate is much too high for broadcasting purposes, which is why they are subjected to a compression process before being processed for transmission. The 270 Mbit/s must be compressed to about 2…7 Mbit/s - a very high compression factor which, however, is possible due to the use of a variety of redundancy and irrelevance reduction mechanisms. The data rate of an uncompressed HDTV signal is even higher than 1 Gbit/s and MPEG-2 coded HDTV signals have a data rate of about 15 … 20 Mbit/s.

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    Dipl. Ing. (FH) Walter Fischer

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Fischer, W. (2010). MPEG-2 Video Coding. In: Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11612-4_7

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