Parallel MPEG-1 Video Encoding

Kevin L. Gong and Lawrence A. Rowe

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-94-811
May 1994

MPEG-1 is an ISO/IEC (International Organisation for Standardisation/International Electrotechnical Commission) standard for medium-quality and medium-bit rate video and audio encoding. We have developed a parallel MPEG-1 encoder that runs on a network of workstations. We have implemented a number of different motion vector search techniques. The sequential code can encode over 0.6 frames per second on an HP 9000/720 machine and the parallel code can encode slightly less than 4 frames per second on a network of 9 of these machines connected via Ethernet.


BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Gong:CSD-94-811,
    Author = {Gong, Kevin L. and Rowe, Lawrence A.},
    Title = {Parallel MPEG-1 Video Encoding},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1994},
    Month = {May},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/6311.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-94-811},
    Abstract = {MPEG-1 is an ISO/IEC (International Organisation for Standardisation/International Electrotechnical Commission) standard for medium-quality and medium-bit rate video and audio encoding. We have developed a parallel MPEG-1 encoder that runs on a network of workstations. We have implemented a number of different motion vector search techniques. The sequential code can encode over 0.6 frames per second on an HP 9000/720 machine and the parallel code can encode slightly less than 4 frames per second on a network of 9 of these machines connected via Ethernet.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Rowe, Lawrence A.
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%D 1994
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