The berkeley software MPEG-1 video decoder

Authors:
Ketan Mayer-Patel;Brian C. Smith;Lawrence A. Rowe
Affiliations:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC;TippingPoint Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX;University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Venue:
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This article reprises the description of the Berkeley software-only MPEG-1 video decoder originally published in the proceedings of the 1st International ACM Conference on Multimedia in 1993. The software subsequently became widely used in a variety of research systems and commercial products. Its main impact was to provide a platform for experimenting with streaming compressed video and to expose the strengths and weaknesses of software-only video decoding using general purpose computing architectures. This article compares the original performance results with experiments run on a modern processor to demonstrate the gains of processing power in the past ten years relative to this specific application and discusses the history of MPEG-1 video software decoding and the Berkeley MPEG research group.