MPEG-2 real-time software CODEC for full-duplex transmission application over IP networks

This paper proposes a real-time MPEG-2 software CODEC for full-duplex transmission applications, and evaluates its performance and usefulness. The CODEC consists of a high-speed encodersdecoder, an IP sendersreceiver, and an error recovery controller. Each encodersdecoder is accelerated and optimized by exploiting fast algorithms and instruction-level parallelism. The IP sendersreceiver combination achieves low delay owing to the direct translating of each elementary stream of video and audio into UDPsIP packets. The error recovery controller carries out simple but powerful error tolerance against packet loss over IP networks. This CODEC attains low delay of 99 ms (M = 1, N = 1) to 165 ms (M = 3, N = 3) including input, encoding, transmitting, decoding, and output delays, and maintains a normal frame rate of 30 fps (frames per second) and more than 20 fps even under a fairly heavy network load. It provides sufficiently good performance for use as a real-time full NTSC-size CODEC on a PC of at least 1.2-GHz CPU. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 36(2): 33–41, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (). DOI 10.1002sscj.20151