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Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm)

Date 2013-09-13 08:05 +0200
From Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no">
Newsgroups comp.arch
Subject Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm)
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BGB wrote:
> for one of my ideas for a video codec, I had considered the possibility
> of starting each row of macroblocks on a byte-aligned address (and with
> a zeroed DC predictor), which could potentially allow a decoder to have
> the ability to decode each row of macroblocks in a separate thread
> (as-needed).
>
> haven't actually done this though...
>
Afair, BluRay encodes every frame in 4 subframes, possibly/probably 
because that allows trivial 4-way parallelism which both matches better 
to the 7-8 Cell cores on a PSIII, and reduces the working set of each 
subframe to a size which actually fits inside one such core.

Terje
-- 
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

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Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2013-09-12 06:37 +0200
  Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-09-12 05:54 +0000
    Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2013-09-12 10:03 +0200
    Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2013-09-12 16:28 +0200
    Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2013-09-14 14:57 +0200
      Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> - 2013-09-14 19:12 +0000
  Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2013-09-12 13:31 +0000
    Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2013-09-12 16:30 +0200
    Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-09-12 19:39 -0500
      Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm) Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2013-09-13 08:05 +0200
        Re: Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm) BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-09-14 00:43 -0500
          Re: Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm) "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2013-09-15 18:28 +0200
            Re: Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm) BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-09-16 17:00 -0500
              Re: Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm) "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2013-09-26 14:37 +0200
                Re: Parallel video codec (Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm) BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-09-26 23:50 -0500
      Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm "Shaun" <stereobuff07@gmail.com> - 2013-09-19 04:26 -0500
        Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2013-09-22 03:25 +0200
  Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2013-09-21 10:09 +0200
  Re: Skybuck's Parallel Static Huffman Decoding Algorithm MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2013-10-06 17:09 -0700

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