Real-time H.264/AVC codec on Intel architectures (MP-P1)

Author(s) : Vaughn Iverson (Intel Corporation, USA) Jeff McVeigh (Intel Corporation, USA) Bob Reese (Intel Corporation, USA)

Abstract : The impressive coding efficiency of H.264/AVC comes at the expense of significantly increased algorithmic complexity compared to existing standards, which has limited the availability of cost-effective, high-performance solutions. We present the design and implementation details of a compliant codec optimized for the Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4, Pentium(r) M, and XScale(r) micro-architectures. We provide an overview of the codec’s design, and results on encoder rate-distortion performance, and encoder/decoder execution speed. These results demonstrate that high-quality, real-time H.264/AVC recording and playback are achievable on today’s PC (desktop and notebook) and handheld (cell phone and portable media player) platforms based on these general-purpose Intel architectures.

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