A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR VIDEO DATA AND A METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING VIDEO DATA OVER A NETWORK

摘要

According to the present invention there is provided a communication system for video data, said system comprising a "Multiple Description Coding" (MDC) system, adapted to generate, for each frame or slice of a video sequence, at least one "Primary Slice Description" (PSD) (21) and one or more "Redundant Slice Description" (RSD) (22), said system being further adapted to interlace said plurality of PSD and RSD descriptions, so as to generate a corresponding plurality of "Video Descriptions" (VDs) adapted to be transmitted to a plurality of clients and/or users of a communication network over a plurality of communication paths.