The berkeley software MPEG-1 video decoder

This article reprises the description of the Berkeley software-only MPEG-1 video decoder originally published in the proceedings of the 1st International ACM Conference on Multimedia in 1993. The software subsequently became widely used in a variety of research systems and commercial products. Its m...

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Published in:ACM transactions on multimedia computing communications and applications 2005-02, Vol.1 (1), p.110-125
Main Authors: Mayer-Patel, Ketan, Smith, Brian C., Rowe, Lawrence A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This article reprises the description of the Berkeley software-only MPEG-1 video decoder originally published in the proceedings of the 1st International ACM Conference on Multimedia in 1993. The software subsequently became widely used in a variety of research systems and commercial products. Its main impact was to provide a platform for experimenting with streaming compressed video and to expose the strengths and weaknesses of software-only video decoding using general purpose computing architectures. This article compares the original performance results with experiments run on a modern processor to demonstrate the gains of processing power in the past ten years relative to this specific application and discusses the history of MPEG-1 video software decoding and the Berkeley MPEG research group.
ISSN:1551-6857
1551-6865
DOI:10.1145/1047936.1047944