Optimized Solution to Accelerate in Hardware an Intra H.264/SVC Video Encoder

Ronaldo Husemann,; Altamiro Amadeu Susin,and; Valter Roesler

doi:10.1109/MM.2018.2880163

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Optimized Solution to Accelerate in Hardware an Intra H.264/SVC Video Encoder

Nov.-Dec. 2018, pp. 8-17, vol. 38

DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/MM.2018.2880163

Authors

Ronaldo Husemann,, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Altamiro Amadeu Susin,and, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Valter Roesler, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords

Streaming Media, Hardware Acceleration, Static V Ar Compensators, Encoding, Quantization Signal

Abstract

This paper introduces a real-time intra H.264/SVC encoder CMOS 180 nm implementation. Results confirmed it as an efficient approach that is able to encode up to 16 layers for 1080p videos at 30 fps.

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Optimized Solution to Accelerate in Hardware an Intra H.264/SVC Video Encoder

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