Implementation of adaptive streaming of stored MPEG-4 FGS video over TCP

Author

de Cuetos, P. ; Guillotel, Philippe ; Ross, Keith W. ; Thoreau, Dominique

Author_Institution

Inst. EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

405

Abstract

This paper presents an implementation of an end-to-end application for streaming stored MPEG-4 fine-grained scalable (FGS) videos over the best-effort Internet. Our current implementation runs over TCP but can also be run over TCP-friendly RTP/UDP with an error recovery mechanism. Our scheme adapts the coding rate of the streaming video to the variations of the available bandwidth for the connection, while smoothing changes in image quality between consecutive video scenes. We justify our design choices and present the results of the simulations obtained from our testbed. Our combined use of FGS-encoded video with a simple network-adaptation heuristic gives a system of low complexity, which is suitable for high performing video servers.

Keywords

Internet; adaptive systems; code standards; data compression; telecommunication standards; transport protocols; video codecs; video coding; FGS codec; FGS-encoded video; RTP/UDP; TCP; adaptive streaming algorithm; bandwidth; best-effort Internet; coding rate; error recovery; fine-grained scalable videos; image quality; network-adaptation heuristic; simulations; stored MPEG-4 FGS video; streaming video; video scenes; video servers; Bandwidth; Image coding; Image quality; Internet; Layout; MPEG 4 Standard; Network servers; Smoothing methods; Streaming media; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2002. ICME '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7304-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2002.1035804

Filename

1035804