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Method for efficient processing of BTP enabled MPEG4 stream

US9749679B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 6, 2016
Grant dateAug 29, 2017
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Expiry dateJan 6, 2036

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/44008
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system is provided for providing a trickplay operation using a digital video recorder (DVR) when the video includes Broadcom Transport Packets (BTPs) designed for MPEG-2, but in an MPEG-4 video steam. In a first embodiment, to enable trickplay to function properly with MPEG-4 video, the BTP descriptors included with each group of data frames are disabled so that a single descriptor provided without BTPs that would otherwise be provided in MPEG-4 is all that remains. In a second embodiment, the 5 descriptors for MPEG-4 are combined into a single descriptor. In a third embodiment, the pace of decoding of the MPEG-4 descriptors is increased so that the speed of encoding all the 5 descriptors is comparable to the pace of decoding a single MPEG-2 descriptor.

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