1997 Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference (APDC '97) An Effective Parallelizing Scheme of MPEG-1 Video Encoding on Ethernet-Connected Workstations Shanghai, CHINA March 19-March 21 ISBN: 0-8186-7876-3
Although MPEG-1 Video is a promising and the most widely used moving picture compression standard, it requires a lot of computational resources to encode the moving pictures with a reasonable frame size and quality. In this paper, we propose and implement an efficient parallelizing scheme of MPEG-1 Video encoding algorithm on an Ethernet-connected workstations which is the most widely available computing environment nowadays. In this parallelizing scheme, the slice-level, frame-level, and GOP (Group of Pictures)-level parallelisms are identified as the attractive parallelisms that can be exploited in Ethernet-connected workstations. Three efficient parallel implementation schemes considering the communication characteristics of Ethernet-connected workstations are also proposed and experimented. A series of experiments using thirty workstations shows that the MPEG-1 Video encoding time can be reduced in proportional to the number of workstations used in encoding computations, although there is a saturation point in the speedup graphs.
Index Terms:
Multimedia Compression, MPEG-1 Video Encoding, Parallel MPEG-1 Video Encoding, a Network of Workstations
Citation:
Jongho Nang, Junwha Kim, "An Effective Parallelizing Scheme of MPEG-1 Video Encoding on Ethernet-Connected Workstations," apdc, pp.4, 1997 Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference (APDC '97), 1997 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||