An Effective Parallelizing Scheme of MPEG-1 Video Encoding on Ethernet-Connected Workstations

  • Authors:
  • Jongho Nang;Junwha Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • APDC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference (APDC '97)
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

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.