11/26 Video codec Algorithms Implementors (or anyone): Does the decoding of
mp3s, avis, etc lend itself well to parallel processors? Will a
Quad PII-450 be able to decode just as well as a PIII 800? Thx.
\_ It could be parallelized, but it's probably too much trouble
in practice.
\_ nobody cares about decoding speeds. It's encoding that's the bitch.
\_ Yes. I did research for a grad student who got his PhD in this
field (he was one of the original MPEG1 authors):
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~kmp
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~kmp/publications/dissertation/thesis.pdf
(he used to be in Rowe's research group, BMRC)
\_ No, because there's NO SUCH THING as a PII-450. |