Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Multimedia Systems.- Overview of MPEG-2 Systems.- Video Codec Internal and Data Flow.- Independent Slice Decoder.- Syntax Hierarchies and Encapsulation.- VC-1 Syntax Hierarchy in Bitstreams.- VC-1 Encapsulation in MPEG-2 Systems.- H.264 Syntax Hierarchy in Bitstreams.- H.264 Encapsulation in MPEG-2 Systems.- Comparisons between VC-1 and H.264.- HRD Models and Rate Control.- Video Buffer Verifier (VBV) Model.- HRD Model in VC-1 Video.- HRD Model in H.264 Video.- Constant Delay CBR HRD Mirroring in Encoder Buffer.- Rate Control Algorithms in Standard Test Models.- Bandwidth Panic Mode in VC-1.- Transform and Quantization.- Transform Coding.- VC-1 Transform and Quantization.- H.264 Transform and Quantization.- Intra Prediction.- Effect of Intra Prediction.- VC-1 Intra Prediction.- H.264 Intra Prediction.- Inter Prediction.- Inter Prediction.- VC-1 Inter Prediction.- H.264 Inter Prediction.- In-Loop and Out-Loop Filters.- Deblocking Process.- VC-1 In-Loop Filtering.- H.264 In-Loop Deblocking Filtering.- Out-Loop Filtering.- Interlace Handling.- MPEG-2 Interlace Handling.- VC-1 Interlace Handling.- H.264 Interlace Handling.- Syntax and Parsing.- Table-based and Computation-Based Codes.- Codes in MPEG-2.- Codes in VC-1.- Codes in H.264.- References.- Index.