TR2008-003

A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution

    •  Xin, J., Vetro, A., Sekiguchi, S., "A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), January 2008.
      BibTeX TR2008-003 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Xin2008jan,
      • author = {Xin, J. and Vetro, A. and Sekiguchi, S.},
      • title = {A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)},
      • year = 2008,
      • month = jan,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2008-003}
      • }
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    Digital Video

Abstract:

This paper analyzes the performance of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC transcoding to half-horizontal resolution. Both the quality of the resulting video and complexity of the system are examined in the context of next-generation HDD recording systems. Experimental results show the importance of motion mapping to maintain high picture quality and that quality improvement over full-resolution transcoding is possible. It is also shown that transcoding to half-horizontal resolution allows for substantial reduction in complexity.

 

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