Abstract

H.264/AVC is an international video coding standard, jointly developed by groups from ISO/IEC and ITU-T, which aims at achieving improved compression performance. Various applications of H.264/AVC include conversational, storage, and streaming. It also includes many advanced functionalities such as interactivities, scalabilities and Error resilience. The decoder is standardized by imposing restrictions on the bit stream and syntax, and defining the process of decoding syntax elements such that every decoder conforming to the standard will produce similar output when encoded bit stream is provided as input. It uses state of art coding tools and provides enhanced coding efficiency for a wide range of applications, including video telephony, real-time video conferencing, direct-broadcast TV (television), blue-ray disc, DVB (Digital video broadcast) broadcast, streaming video and others.. The paper proposes to investigate the decoder performance on different video quality measures. In this paper, we also discuss various error resiliency schemes employed by H.264/AVC.

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