The berkeley software MPEG-1 video decoder

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) archive
Volume 1 , Issue 1 (February 2005) table of contents

Pages: 110 - 125

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:1551-6857

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Ketan Mayer-Patel	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Brian C. Smith	TippingPoint Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX
Lawrence A. Rowe	University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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