H.264 EncoderDecoder Pair in a Stream Programming Language

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H.264 Encoder/Decoder Pair in a Stream
Programming Language

• Shirley Fung
• Rodric Rabbah, Professor Saman Amarasinghe
• Commit StreamIt
• Computer Architecture Group (CAG) _at_ CSAIL

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MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264

• Advanced Video Coding
• Data compression standard
• Cut bit rate by half or more
• Encoder and decoder (ISO/IEC 14496-10)

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Whats the difference

• Support for new applications
• Video conferencing over the internet, cell phones
• HD-quality video on DVDs and Blue Ray discs
• At a cost added complexity
• Intra prediction more modes
• Inter prediction higher precision
• and other changes, but same concepts/design

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• Interprediction
• Intraprediction
• Transform Quantization
• Entropy Encoding

http//vcodex.com
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Basic StreamIt Graph