Very advanced and detailed tutorials on videos?

[SignedupGuest]

Anyone know any very advanced and detailed tutorials on the web? Advanced 2 the point were I could read the bytes of the video file and know what it all means (ex: beable to find all the information saved in the video, understand the compressing, etc). I know there are many different types of videos with type of codecs. Nonetheless I still want to start somewhere.

Once I learn the in's and out's of this, id like to eventually be able to code a video player. Then maybe eventually code a video editor.

[edDV]

Umm, I'd say start with one video format and work out from there.

Start here. Read and understand it and then ask again with more specifics.

http://www.fourcc.org/

PS: If you don't know where to start most computer graphics courses start with the 1Kx1K 24bpp RGB frame buffer (one byte per component per pixel).

A more video oriented raster would be 640x480 square pixel.

Next understand YUV color space and UYVY 16 bit or YUY2/YUYV variations.
ITU-Rec-601 specifies a 720x480 or 720x576 raster with non-square pixels.
Frame rates are 29.97 (NTSC ref) or 25 (PAL ref).