Rate-reduction techniques for MPEG-2 video bit streams

Pedro Assuncao; Mohammad Ghanbari

doi:10.1117/12.251306

16 September 1996 Rate-reduction techniques for MPEG-2 video bit streams

Pedro Assuncao, Mohammad Ghanbari

Proceedings Volume 2952, Digital Compression Technologies and Systems for Video Communications; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.251306
Event: Advanced Imaging and Network Technologies, 1996, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Rate control is usually an intrinsic function of the video coding algorithm, responsible for matching the available bandwidth of the communication channel to the output bit stream. However, many of the forthcoming video services will use pre-encoded video, in compressed format, for storage and transmission purposes. In this case, the rate control function should work on the compressed bit stream by reducing its bit rate according to the network demand, which can be either static or dynamic. Bit rate reduction of compressed video is needed not only when pre-encoded video is transmitted, but also in video multicasting where several users receive the same bit stream through different channels. A similar problem results from the interactivity with the user in video on demand services, where each user is offered the possibility of choosing the amount of bandwidth assigned to its channel. In this paper we analyze rate reduction techniques for compressed video in terms of complexity and final picture quality. We propose a new scheme, working entirely in the frequency domain, for bit rate reduction of compressed video. It is a low delay and drift free video transcoder that outperforms a re-encoding system and performs very close to a normal encoder using uncompressed video.

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Pedro Assuncao and Mohammad Ghanbari "Rate-reduction techniques for MPEG-2 video bit streams", Proc. SPIE 2952, Digital Compression Technologies and Systems for Video Communications, (16 September 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.251306

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