Video
Video (Latin for "I see", first person singular present, indicative of videre, "to see") is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion. Video technology was first developed for television systems, but has been further developed in many formats to allow for consumer video recording. Video can also be viewed through the Internet as video clips or streaming media clips on computer monitors.
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Description
The term video commonly refers to several storage formats for moving pictures: digital video formats, including DVD, QuickTime, and MPEG-4; and analog videotapes, including VHS and Betamax. Video can be recorded and transmitted in various physical media: in magnetic tape when recorded as PAL or NTSC electric signals by video cameras, or in MPEG-4 or DV digital media when recorded by digital cameras.Quality of video essentially depends on the capturing method and storage used. Digital television (DTV) is a relatively recent format with higher quality than earlier television formats and has become a standard for television video. (See List of digital television deployments by country.)
3D-video, digital video in three dimensions, premiered at the end of 20th century. Six or eight cameras with realtime depth measurement are typically used to capture 3D-video streams. The format of 3D-video is fixed in MPEG-4 Part 16 Animation Framework eXtension (AFX).
In the UK, Australia, The Netherlands and New Zealand, the term video is often used informally to refer to both video recorders and video cassettes; the meaning is normally clear from the context.
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Characteristics of video streams
Number of frames per second
Frame rate, the number of still pictures per unit of time of video, ranges from six or eight frames per second (fps) for old mechanical cameras to 120 or more frames per second for new professional cameras. PAL (Europe, Asia, Australia, etc.) and SECAM (France, Russia, parts of Africa etc.) standards specify 25 fps, while NTSC (USA, Canada, Japan, etc.) specifies 29.97 fps. Film is shot at the slower frame rate of 24fps, which complicates slightly the process of transferring a cinematic motion picture to video. To achieve the illusion of a moving image, the minimum frame rate is about fifteen frames per second.Interlacing
Video can be interlaced or progressive. Interlacing was invented as a way to achieve good visual quality within the limitations of a narrow bandwidth. The horizontal scan lines of each interlaced frame are numbered consecutively and partitioned into two fields: the odd field (upper field) consisting of the odd-numbered lines and the even field (lower field) consisting of the even-numbered lines. NTSC, PAL and SECAM are interlaced formats. Abbreviated video resolution specifications often include an i to indicate interlacing. For example, PAL video format is often specified as 576i50, where 576 indicates the vertical line resolution, i indicates interlacing, and 50 indicates 50 fields (half-frames) per second.
In progressive scan systems, each refresh period updates all of the scan lines. The result is a higher perceived resolution and a lack of various artifacts that can make parts of a stationary picture appear to be moving or flashing.
A procedure known as deinterlacing can be used for converting an interlaced stream, such as analog, DVD, or satellite, to be processed by progressive scan devices, such as TFT TV-sets, projectors, and plasma panels. Deinterlacing cannot, however, produce a video quality that is equivalent to true progressive scan source material.
Frame rate, the number of still pictures per unit of time of video, ranges from six or eight frames per second (fps) for old mechanical cameras to 120 or more frames per second for new professional cameras. PAL (Europe, Asia, Australia, etc.) and SECAM (France, Russia, parts of Africa etc.) standards specify 25 fps, while NTSC (USA, Canada, Japan, etc.) specifies 29.97 fps. Film is shot at the slower frame rate of 24fps, which complicates slightly the process of transferring a cinematic motion picture to video. To achieve the illusion of a moving image, the minimum frame rate is about fifteen frames per second.Interlacing
Video can be interlaced or progressive. Interlacing was invented as a way to achieve good visual quality within the limitations of a narrow bandwidth. The horizontal scan lines of each interlaced frame are numbered consecutively and partitioned into two fields: the odd field (upper field) consisting of the odd-numbered lines and the even field (lower field) consisting of the even-numbered lines. NTSC, PAL and SECAM are interlaced formats. Abbreviated video resolution specifications often include an i to indicate interlacing. For example, PAL video format is often specified as 576i50, where 576 indicates the vertical line resolution, i indicates interlacing, and 50 indicates 50 fields (half-frames) per second.
In progressive scan systems, each refresh period updates all of the scan lines. The result is a higher perceived resolution and a lack of various artifacts that can make parts of a stationary picture appear to be moving or flashing.
A procedure known as deinterlacing can be used for converting an interlaced stream, such as analog, DVD, or satellite, to be processed by progressive scan devices, such as TFT TV-sets, projectors, and plasma panels. Deinterlacing cannot, however, produce a video quality that is equivalent to true progressive scan source material.
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Video resolution
The size of a video image is measured in pixels for digital video, or horizontal scan lines and vertical lines of resolution for analog video. In the digital domain (e.g. DVD) standard-definition television (SDTV) is specified as 720/704/640×480i60 for NTSC and 768/720×576i50 for PAL or SECAM resolution. However in the analog domain, the number of visible scanlines remains constant (486 NTSC/576 PAL) while the horizontal measurement varies with the quality of the signal: approximately 320 pixels per scanline for VCR quality, 400 pixels for TV broadcasts, and 720 pixels for DVD sources. Aspect ratio is preserved because of non-square "pixels".New high-definition televisions * mp3 indir(HDTV) are capable of resolutions up to 1920×1080p60, i.e. 1920 pixels per scan line by 1080 scan lines, progressive, at 60 frames per second.
Video resolution for 3D-video is measured in voxels (volume picture element, representing a value in three dimensional space). For example 512×512×512 voxels resolution, now used for simple 3D-video, can be displayed even on some PDAs.
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Aspect ratio
Aspect ratio describes the dimensions of video screens and video picture elements. The screen aspect ratio of a traditional television screen is 4:3, or 1.33:1. High definition televisions use an aspect ratio of 16:9, or about 1.78:1. The aspect ratio of a full 35 mm film frame with soundtrack (also known as "Academy standard") is around 2.37:1.Pixels on computer monitors are usually square, but pixels used in digital video often have non-square aspect ratios, such as those used in the PAL and NTSC variants of the CCIR 601 digital video standard, and the corresponding anamorphic widescreen formats. Therefore, an NTSC DV image which is 720 pixels by 480 pixels is displayed with the aspect ratio of 4:3 (which is the traditional television standard) if the pixels are thin and displayed with the aspect ratio and 16:9 (which is the anamorphic widescreen format) if the pixels are fat.
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Color space and bits per pixel
Color model name describes the video color representation. YIQ was used in NTSC television. It corresponds closely to the YUV scheme used in NTSC and PAL television and the YDbDr scheme used by SECAM television.The number of distinct colours that can be represented by a pixel depends on the number of bits per pixel (bpp). A common way to reduce the number of bits per pixel in digital video is by chroma subsampling (e.g. 4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0).Video qualityVideo quality can be measured with formal metrics like PSNR or with subjective video quality using expert observation.
The subjective video quality of a video processing system may be evaluated as follows:
* Choose the video sequences (the SRC) to use for testing.
* Choose the settings of the system to evaluate (the HRC).
* Choose a test method for how to present video sequences to experts and to collect their ratings.
* Invite a sufficient number of experts, preferably not fewer than 15.
* Carry out testing.
* Calculate the average marks for each HRC based on the experts' ratings.
Many subjective video quality methods are described in the ITU-T recommendation BT.500. One of the standardized method is the Double Stimulus Impairment Scale (DSIS). In DSIS, each expert views an unimpaired reference video followed by an impaired version of the same video. The expert then rates the impaired video using a scale ranging from "impairments are imperceptible" to "impairments are very annoying".
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Video compression method (digital only)
A wide variety of methods are used to compress video streams. Video data contains spatial and temporal redundancy, making uncompressed video streams extremely inefficient. Broadly speaking, spatial redundancy is reduced by registering differences between parts of a single frame; this task is known as intraframe compression and is closely related to image compression. Likewise, temporal redundancy can be reduced by registering differences between frames; this task is known as interframe compression, including motion compensation and other techniques. The most common modern standards are MPEG-2, used for DVD and satellite television, and MPEG-4, used for home video.Bit rate (digital only)
Bit rate is a measure of the rate of information content in a video stream. It is quantified using the bit per second (bit/s or bps) unit or Megabits per second (Mbit/s). A higher bit rate allows better video quality. For example VideoCD, with a bit rate of about 1 Mbit/s, is lower quality than DVD, with a bit rate of about 5 Mbit/s. HDTV has a still higher quality, with a bit rate of about 20 Mbit/s.
Variable bit rate (VBR) is a strategy to maximize the visual video quality and minimize the bit rate. On fast motion scenes, a variable bit rate uses more bits than it does on slow motion scenes of similar duration yet achieves a consistent visual quality. For real-time and non-buffered video streaming when the available bandwidth is fixed, e.g. in videoconferencing delivered on channels of fixed bandwidth, a constant bit rate (CBR) must be used.Stereoscopic
Stereoscopic video requires either two channels - a right channel for the right eye and a left channel for the left eye or two overlayed color coded layers. This left and right layer technique is occasionally used for network broadcast, or recent "anaglyph" releases of 3D movies on DVD. Simple Red/Cyan plastic glasses provide the means to view the images discretely to form a stereoscopic view of the content.* New HD DVD and HD Blu-ray disks will greatly improve the 3D effect, in color coded stereo programs. The first commercially available HD players were expected to debut at the 2006 NAB Show in Las Vegas in April. See articles Stereoscopy and 3-D- Max film.
Bit rate is a measure of the rate of information content in a video stream. It is quantified using the bit per second (bit/s or bps) unit or Megabits per second (Mbit/s). A higher bit rate allows better video quality. For example VideoCD, with a bit rate of about 1 Mbit/s, is lower quality than DVD, with a bit rate of about 5 Mbit/s. HDTV has a still higher quality, with a bit rate of about 20 Mbit/s.
Variable bit rate (VBR) is a strategy to maximize the visual video quality and minimize the bit rate. On fast motion scenes, a variable bit rate uses more bits than it does on slow motion scenes of similar duration yet achieves a consistent visual quality. For real-time and non-buffered video streaming when the available bandwidth is fixed, e.g. in videoconferencing delivered on channels of fixed bandwidth, a constant bit rate (CBR) must be used.Stereoscopic
Stereoscopic video requires either two channels - a right channel for the right eye and a left channel for the left eye or two overlayed color coded layers. This left and right layer technique is occasionally used for network broadcast, or recent "anaglyph" releases of 3D movies on DVD. Simple Red/Cyan plastic glasses provide the means to view the images discretely to form a stereoscopic view of the content.* New HD DVD and HD Blu-ray disks will greatly improve the 3D effect, in color coded stereo programs. The first commercially available HD players were expected to debut at the 2006 NAB Show in Las Vegas in April. See articles Stereoscopy and 3-D- Max film.
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Video formats
Video display standards Video connection standards
* New digital:
o ATSC (USA, Canada, etc.)
o DVB (European, Digital Video Broadcasting)
o ISDB (Japanese, Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting)
* Old analog:
o MAC (Europe - Obsolete)
o MUSE (Japan-analog HDTV)
o NTSC (USA, Canada, Japan, etc.)
o PAL (Europe, Asia, Australia, etc.)
+ PALplus (PAL extension. Europe only)
+ PAL-M (PAL variation. Brazil)
o SECAM (France, ex-USSR, Central Africa)
* Composite video (1 RCA or BNC)
* Component video (3 RCA or BNC)
o D4 video connector (new for HDTV)
* S-Video (from Separated Video, 1 mini-DIN)
* SCART (used in Europe)
* DVI (uncompressed video only). HDCP optional
* HDMI (uncompressed video & audio). HDCP mandatory.
* RF connectors (from Radio Frequency coaxial connector)
o BNC (Bayonet Niell-Concelman)
o C connector (Concelman connector)
o GR connector (General Radio connector)
o F connector (used for U.S. domestic television installations)
o IEC 169-2 (IEC connector, used mostly in the UK)
o N connector (Niell connector)
o TNC connector (Threaded Niell-Concelman)
o UHF connector (e.g. PL-259/SO-239)
o SDI and HD-SDI
* VGA connector (DB-9/15 or mini sub D15)
* Mini-VGA (used for laptops)
* New digital:
o ATSC (USA, Canada, etc.)
o DVB (European, Digital Video Broadcasting)
o ISDB (Japanese, Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting)
* Old analog:
o MAC (Europe - Obsolete)
o MUSE (Japan-analog HDTV)
o NTSC (USA, Canada, Japan, etc.)
o PAL (Europe, Asia, Australia, etc.)
+ PALplus (PAL extension. Europe only)
+ PAL-M (PAL variation. Brazil)
o SECAM (France, ex-USSR, Central Africa)
* Composite video (1 RCA or BNC)
* Component video (3 RCA or BNC)
o D4 video connector (new for HDTV)
* S-Video (from Separated Video, 1 mini-DIN)
* SCART (used in Europe)
* DVI (uncompressed video only). HDCP optional
* HDMI (uncompressed video & audio). HDCP mandatory.
* RF connectors (from Radio Frequency coaxial connector)
o BNC (Bayonet Niell-Concelman)
o C connector (Concelman connector)
o GR connector (General Radio connector)
o F connector (used for U.S. domestic television installations)
o IEC 169-2 (IEC connector, used mostly in the UK)
o N connector (Niell connector)
o TNC connector (Threaded Niell-Concelman)
o UHF connector (e.g. PL-259/SO-239)
o SDI and HD-SDI
* VGA connector (DB-9/15 or mini sub D15)
* Mini-VGA (used for laptops)
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Video formats
Analog tape formats (see analog television)
Digital tape formats (see digital video)
* Ampex
* VERA (BBC experimental format ca. 1958)
* Philips videotape recorder EL3400 1" helical scan ca.1963
* U-matic (Sony)
* Betamax (Sony)
* Betacam
* Betacam SP
* 2" Quadruplex videotape (Ampex)
* 1" Type C videotape (Ampex and Sony)
* 1" Type B video tape (Bosch)
* VCR, VCR-LP, SVR
* VHS (JVC)
* S-VHS (JVC)
* VHS-C (JVC)
* Video 2000 (Philips)
* Video8
* Video Hi8
* D1 (Sony)
* D2 (Sony)
* D3
* D5 HD
* Digital Betacam (Sony)
* Betacam IMX (Sony)
* HDV
* ProHD (JVC)
* D-VHS (JVC)
* DV
* MiniDV
* MicroMV
* Digital8 (Sony)
Optical disc storage formats
Digital encoding formats
* DVD (was Super Density Disc, DVD Forum)
* Laserdisc (old, MCA and Philips)
* Blu-ray Disc (Sony)
* Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD, Chinese government-sponsored)
* HD DVD (Hitachi and Toshiba)
* CCIR 601 (ITU-T)
* M-JPEG (ISO)
* MPEG-1 (ISO)
* MPEG-2 (ITU-T + ISO)
* MPEG-4 (ISO)
* H.261 (ITU-T)
* H.263 (ITU-T)
* H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (ITU-T + ISO)
* VC-1 (SMPTE)
* Ogg-Theora
Digital tape formats (see digital video)
* Ampex
* VERA (BBC experimental format ca. 1958)
* Philips videotape recorder EL3400 1" helical scan ca.1963
* U-matic (Sony)
* Betamax (Sony)
* Betacam
* Betacam SP
* 2" Quadruplex videotape (Ampex)
* 1" Type C videotape (Ampex and Sony)
* 1" Type B video tape (Bosch)
* VCR, VCR-LP, SVR
* VHS (JVC)
* S-VHS (JVC)
* VHS-C (JVC)
* Video 2000 (Philips)
* Video8
* Video Hi8
* D1 (Sony)
* D2 (Sony)
* D3
* D5 HD
* Digital Betacam (Sony)
* Betacam IMX (Sony)
* HDV
* ProHD (JVC)
* D-VHS (JVC)
* DV
* MiniDV
* MicroMV
* Digital8 (Sony)
Optical disc storage formats
Digital encoding formats
* DVD (was Super Density Disc, DVD Forum)
* Laserdisc (old, MCA and Philips)
* Blu-ray Disc (Sony)
* Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD, Chinese government-sponsored)
* HD DVD (Hitachi and Toshiba)
* CCIR 601 (ITU-T)
* M-JPEG (ISO)
* MPEG-1 (ISO)
* MPEG-2 (ITU-T + ISO)
* MPEG-4 (ISO)
* H.261 (ITU-T)
* H.263 (ITU-T)
* H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (ITU-T + ISO)
* VC-1 (SMPTE)
* Ogg-Theora
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