TR2008-003

A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution
Citation: Xin, J.; Vetro, A.; Sekiguchi, S.-I.;, "A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Session 1.4: Video Transcoding & QoS, January 2008 (ICCE 2008)
Date:April 2008
MERL Contact:Anthony Vetro

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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