   Video Compression
  I have to write an engineering report for school. I have 2 different topics in mind.  The first one is looking at MPEG2 compression, analysing it, discuss it''s strengths and weaknesses, look at things which could optimize it, what sort of applications it''s best suited for, etc.  My other idea involved a similar concept but instead of looking specifically at just MPEG2, it would be more of a comparison between it and some other compression scheme such as a wavelet based encoding scheme.I''ve been trying to find resources for this, but so far I haven''t really found anything much of use.  For the most part, it''s just a high level general overview.  Something along the lines of running the data through a DCT, then doing the quantization following by a zig-zagging of the data for use with RLE which is then Huffman encoded.  I need materials which will allow me to understand how these forms of compression work, the details behind it almost to the point, if not to the point that I could write my own encoder.It would be greatly appreciated if you could point me to resources that you know of, or even suggested terms that I could use for searches.ThanksEric 
  hint for advanced topics : http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/csthen "mpeg compression" or "video compression" or "mpeg 2" or "motion prediction" - you will find tons of advanced analysis and reports on that subject. Note that www.mpeg.org is quite complete with a good papers list : http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/video.html 