this page lists resources that can be used to learn about topics I am interested in. highly recommended resources are marked bold.
introductions
- A digital media primer for geeks introduces you to how multimedia is represented digitally
- Digital show and tell introduces sampling and shows how digital signals behave
- Making software: Image compression shows visually how image codecs work
- But how can it fit so much music? is a video introduction to FLAC
- Introduction to video coding explains more video compression techniques
av1
- Into the Depths: The Technical Details behind AV1 is a video introduction to AV1
- The SVT-AV1 docs explain implementation details of the encoder
blogs
- Kostya’s boring codec world frequently posts about codec reverse engineering
- Breaking eggs and making omelettes sometimes posts about codecs
wikis
- The codec wiki compiles a lot of information on practical video compression