Subject: [codec] A Digital Media Primer for Geeks

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:45:52 -0700

For a number of weeks a number of people involved with Xiph.Org have been working on an introductory video for a technical audience about digital multimedia.

This first video covers only the very most basic material— basically digitization and signal representations for audio and video—, so it probably isn't news to many of the people in this working group. But I expect that some people with more 'protocol' than signal processing background will find it informative.

Hopefully we'll have the opportunity to produce follow on material to each everyone else everything we know about this subject area.

The video is available at  http://www.xiph.org/video/

and there is also a "Wiki edition" of this project, at http://wiki.xiph.org/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks_%28episode_1%29   which links extensively to third party resources for those eager to continue learning beyond the starting point the video provides.  Feedback, and especially additional references for the Wiki would be greatly appropriated.

Enjoy,