Paper Title:

Performance of a Software MPEG Video Decoder

Author(s):

Ketan Patel, Brian C. Smith, and Lawrence A. Rowe

Main Point(s):

This paper describes the design and implementation of a software decoder for MPEG video bitstreams. The software has been ported and tested on numerous platforms. Performance measurements for different bitstreams and on different platforms are given under a unique devised price/performance plan. It is also shown that the memory bandwith is the primary limitation in decoder performance not the computational complexity of inverse discrete cosine transform as commonly thought.

Possible Use(s):

Whereever MPEG is used.

Extensions:

(not know yet)

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