Performance of desktop software MPEG-2 TS decoder

Author

Huttunen, Anssi ; Defée, Irek

Author_Institution

Digital Media Inst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

352

Abstract

Performance of a full MPEG-2 TS (Transport Stream) decoder implemented in software on multimedia microprocessor is analyzed. MPEG-Z TS system is used in digital television broadcasting and network delivery and is a packetized stream which contains audio, video and data packets of constant length. The MPEG-5 TS decoder is implemented on Sun UltraSparc processor running in Unix Solaris OS environment. The UltraSparc multimedia instructions set called VIS (Visual Instruction Set) is used for speeding up video decompression and display of decoded images. Multithreading and real time processes of the Solaris OS are used for timing and synchronization. It is indicated how the performance of the decoder depends on different factors and experimental results are shown for different processor speeds

Keywords

data compression; decoding; digital video broadcasting; multi-threading; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; telecommunication computing; video coding; MPEG-2 TS decoder; MPEG-5 TS decoder; Sun UltraSparc processor; Transport Stream decoder; UltraSparc multimedia instructions; Unix Solaris OS environment; desktop software; digital television broadcasting; multimedia microprocessor; multithreading; network delivery; packetized stream; processor speeds; real time processes; Decoding; Digital TV; Digital audio broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Microprocessors; Multimedia communication; Performance analysis; Software performance; Streaming media; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1999. ISCAS '99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5471-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1999.780014

Filename

780014