Video Transcoding with H.263 Bit-Streams

摘要

Video transcoding is one of the key technologies in implementing dynamic adaptation of the bit-rate of a coded video bit-stream to the available bandwidth over various networks. Many fast transcoder architectures have been proposed to achieve fast processing. However, they suffer from quality degradation caused by the drift error. In this paper, we investigate the drift caused by the fast transcoder architectures for transcoding H.263 bit-streams. We discuss the limitations of the fast transcoder architectures and the flexibility that can be offered by a cascaded pixel-domain transcoder. Since the cascaded pixel-domain transcoder can achieve drift-free performance, we also propose methods to reduce the computational complexity of the drift-free cascaded pixel-domain transcoder.