1. State-of-the-Art Video Transmission -- 1.1 Video Transmission System -- 1.2 Basic Components of a Video Codec -- 1.3 ITU-T Recommendation H.263 -- 1.4 Effectiveness of Motion Compensation Techniques in Hybrid Video Coding -- 1.5 Advanced Motion Compensation Techniques -- 1.6 Video Transmission Over Error Prone Channels -- 1.7 Chapter Summary -- 2. Rate-Constrained Coder Control -- 2.1 Optimization Using Lagrangian Techniques -- 2.2 Lagrangian Optimization in Video Coding -- 2.3 Coder Control for ITU-T Recommendation H.263 -- 2.4 Choosing the Coder Control Parameters -- 2.5 Comparison to Other Encoding Strategies -- 2.6 Chapter Summary -- 3. Long-Term Memory Motion-Compensated Prediction -- 3.1 Long-Term Memory Motion Compensation -- 3.2 Prediction Performance -- 3.3 Statistical Model for the Prediction Gain -- 3.4 Integration into ITU-T Recommendation H.263 -- 3.5 Discussion and Outlook -- 3.6 Chapter Summary -- 4. Affine Multi-Frame Motion-Compensated Prediction -- 4.1 Affine Multi-Frame Motion Compensation -- 4.2 Rate-Constrained Coder Control -- 4.3 Experiments -- 4.4 Assessment of the Rate-Distortion Performance of Multi-Frame Prediction -- 4.5 Discussion and Outlook -- 4.6 Chapter Summary -- 5. Fast Motion Estimation for Multi-Frame Prediction -- 5.1 Lossless Fast Motion Estimation -- 5.2 Lossy Fast Motion Estimation -- 5.3 Experiments -- 5.4 Discussion and Outlook -- 5.5 Chapter Summary -- 6. Error Resilient Video Transmission -- 6.1 Error Resilient Extensions of the Decoder -- 6.2 Error-Resilient Coder Control -- 6.3 Experiments -- 6.4 Discussion and Outlook -- 6.5 Chapter Summary -- 7. Conclusions -- Appendices -- A- Simulation Conditions -- A.l Distortion Measures -- A.2 Test Sequences -- B- Computation of Expected Values -- References.