Title
A low-cost media-processor based real-time MPEG-4 video decoder
Abstract
Due to the high-sped development in semiconductor technology, general-purpose computers can process digital video, audio and graphics easily. Nowadays, the similar functionality has shifted from the general-purpose computer to the so-called media-processor one. Since the processor is targeted on mass-produced consumer electronic devices, the price and the ease of use are the main concern. The latest MPEG-4 video coding standard, which consumes relatively low bit-rate but yields acceptable quality, meets the target exactly. In this paper, by realizing an MPEG-4 codec using both general-purpose processor and media-processor, we investigated some issues related to the use of a media-processor for satisfying various multimedia compression and processing requirements. The investigated issues include the speedup of the MPEG-4 decoder based on a media-processor DSP chip, a multimedia co-processor or hardware accelerator, the very long instruction word (VLIW) and the single instruction multiple data stream (SIMD) programming techniques. Moreover, a media-processor based MPEG-4 solution for set-top box application is also included.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/TCE.2003.1261258
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
MPEG 4 Standard,Decoding,Streaming media,VLIW,Computer graphics,Consumer electronics,Video coding,Codecs,Digital signal processing chips,Coprocessors
Media processor,Computer science,Very long instruction word,Instruction set,SIMD,Coprocessor,Computer hardware,MPEG-4,Video decoder,Codec,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
49
4
0098-3063
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.47
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jin-hau Kuo111610.87
Chia-Chiang Ho2314.31
Kan-Li Huang3111.66
Jim Shiu420.47
Ja-ling Wu51569168.11