Final Year Project Plan - pjdaniel.org.uk

1 Final year Project PlanTitle:Investigation into digital video streamsStudent:Peter DanielSupervisor: Ben ShirleyIntroductionThe use of digital video is becoming widespread, especially in the field of broadcasting. In order tohelp fault find and maintain digital video systems it is essential to have a method of analysing thecontents of a digital video stream. This Project will investigate video stream formats, encoding andcompression techniques, and create software to help with the analysis of digital video Research into video streams Develop a MS-DOS command line utility to open and read video steam data De-multiplex a transport stream into the elementary streams Develop software to analyse the elementary video stream data and display video properties Develop a Windows graphical user interface for the software aboveOne of the following objectives may be attempted if time allows: Extract and display video frames Extract and display audio waveformsEquipment requirementsThe Project is entirely computer based and requires no equipment as the student will use of student:_____Signature of supervisor:_____Date.

2 _____ 1 2 week starting25/92/109/1016/1023/1030/106/111 3/1120/1127/114/1211/128/115/122/129/15/ 212/219/226/25/312/319/326/32/49/416/423 /430/47/51234567891011121617181920212223 24252627282930313233activityPrepare Project planMeeting with auditorRisk assesment formResearch video streamsDevelop command line utilityDemultiplex transport streamDecode video stream headersProgress reportMeeting with auditor to discuss reportCreate a Windows interface for the utilityAdd extra functionality, eg, Frame displayWrite Final reportHand in Final reportExibition4th JuneOral presentation5th - 8th JuneTitle:Investigation into digital video streamsStudent:Peter DanielSupervisor: Ben Shirley