Interesting, lengthy and technical read on how JPEG works. This is for some of the maths whizzkids out there, rather than the casual reader.

http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/image-compression.html

It’s a good read up if you’re into web production and has a lot of tie-in’s to motion picture too – especially how MPEG compression works.

Would be nice to see a similar thing on how h264 works, please