projects & further reading

As a project, you may think of implementing for example JPEG compression, following  [Li and Drew (2004)], or a SMIL-based application for cultural heritage.

You may further explore the technical issues on authoring DV material, using any of the Adobe, mentioned in appendix E. or compare

For further reading I advice you to take a look at the respective specifications of MPEG-4 and SMIL, and compare the functionality of MPEG-4 and SMIL-based presentation environments. An invaluable book dealing with the many technical aspects of compression and standards in  [Li and Drew (2004)].