A Performance Analysis of Video Compression Standards MPEG & H.264

Abstract

Due to the advent of multimedia computing, the demand for the videos has increased, their storage and
manipulation in their raw form is very expensive and it significantly increases the transmission time and makes storage
costly. When an ordinary analog video sequence is digitized, it can consume up to 165 Mbps. With most surveillance
applications infrequently having to share the network with other data intensive applications and data transfer of
uncompressed video over digital networks requires very high bandwidth. To circumvent this problem, a series of techniques
called video compression techniques have been derived to reduce the number of bits required to represent a digital Video
data while maintaining an acceptable fidelity or Video quality.The objective is to analyze and compare the video coding
standards such as MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) and H.26X family.