Issues in multimedia scaling: the MPEG video streams case

Author

Elloumi, Omar ; Afifi, Hossam ; Toutain, Laurent

fYear

1996

fDate

7-10 May 1996

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

49

Abstract

Multimedia streams usually have an inherent hierarchy and an inter-independency of subsequent blocks in their data structures. Dealing with these features within the operating system and the network brings a global resource usage improvement. We propose a new method for media scaling based on two complementary techniques: circular buffers and filtering. We describe an MPEG distributed application architecture built with the two combined techniques and show improvements in the received video quality

Keywords

buffer storage; code standards; data structures; distributed processing; filtering theory; multimedia communication; telecommunication standards; video coding; MPEG distributed application architecture; MPEG video streams; circular buffers; data structures; filtering; global resource usage; multimedia scaling; multimedia streams; received video quality; video coding; Computer aided software engineering; Computer buffers; Data structures; Filtering; Intelligent networks; Operating systems; Protocols; Streaming media; Tail; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Applications in Communications, 1996. Proceedings., First Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7585-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETACOM.1996.502475

Filename

502475