The document discusses various techniques for digital video compression. It begins by introducing the basics of digital video and motivation for compression. It then covers lossless and lossy compression techniques, including run-length encoding, Huffman encoding, and JPEG. The document also discusses video compression standards like MPEG that use both intraframe and interframe compression, and covers motion compensation techniques. It provides an overview of different video coding standards including H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.