Questions for Form C

  1. What standard related to motion video is most relevant for video conferencing?

  2. Explain briefly why you think Philips used a parallel computer to encode digital video.

  3. What is the focus of the MHEG standard, and how did it evolve from work on SGML?

  4. Computers can only compute values of transcendental functions like cosine as accurately as space allows. What effect will this have on implementations of the JPEG standard? Explain briefly.

  5. Explain briefly what an Entropy Encoder does.


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Tue Aug 30 04:43:00 EDT 1994