Learn all about Codecs--how they work, as well as design and implementation with this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to compression. After reading this book, you will be able to prepare and distribute professional audio and video on any platform including streamed to the web, broadcast on-air, stored in PVRs, Burned onto CD-ROMs or DVDs, delivered by broadband, or viewed in Kiosk applications, PDA devices, and mobile phones.
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* Learn from an award-winning technologist for a top media company who knows how to explain codecs in terms you can understand
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Cliff Wootton takes 25 years of experience and focus on the art and craft of building tools, utilities and workflows to operate in a media and broadcast environment. This book is designed to get you thinking about solving problems in a proactive and productive way. It includes practical descriptions of powerful programming and user techniques or algorithms based on using several programming languages and crossing disciplines to exert additional leverage.

Discover which ARTIK modules to use for various applications, and how to produce code for them. This book goes beyond the information previously available online, efficiently guiding developers from initial setup of their development environment to product development and prototyping in no time. Beginners will find helpful background insights into foundation technology and useful reference information is included for more advanced developers.

Samsung's announcement of the new ARTIK modules for IoT has generated tremendous interest in the developer market for wearable and other...