Phil Hippensteel

Dear Professor Phil, One of our video encoders has a connector on the back that is a serial port.

Dear Professor Phil, At lunch several of us were discussing our new videoconferencing deployment. A debate developed.

Dear Professor Phil, One of our network technicians wants to place a sniffer on our IP video network to try to troubleshoot some problems that we’ve encountered.

Dear Professor Phil, We’re using IPTV at our school and have discovered a situation that we don’t understand.

Video files are usually compressed using a lossy compression. That means that all of the brightness and color captured by the camera is not being preserved in the compressed file.