H.264/SVC decoder performance comparison for DSP-based consumer electronic applications

Fernando Pescador (1) , Médéric Blestel (2) , Eduardo Juarez (1) , Mickaël Raulet (2) , Matias Garrido (1)

1 UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2 IETR - Institut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes

In this paper, a performance comparison of two H.264/SVC-compliant video decoders, Joint Scalable Video Model and Open SVC Decoder, is presented. The performance, in terms of time spent to decode a stream, has been compared in PC and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) environments. The performance of the Open SVC Decoder running on the PC is between three and eight times better than achieved with the JSVM decoder; while in the DSP environment, the improvement is between five and twelve times. These results show that the Open SVC Decoder is more suitable as starting point for the implementation of embedded applications based on DSP.

Mots clés: DSP-based consumer electronic; H.264/SVC-compliant video decoders; digital signal processor; joint scalable video model; open SVC decoder; consumer electronics; data compression; digital signal processing chips; video coding

Domaines: Systèmes embarqués

Fernando Pescador, Médéric Blestel, Eduardo Juarez, Mickaël Raulet, Matias Garrido. H.264/SVC decoder performance comparison for DSP-based consumer electronic applications. Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2011 IEEE 15th International Symposium on, 2011, France. pp.171 -176, ⟨10.1109/ISCE.2011.5973807⟩. ⟨hal-00717316⟩