发明名称 |
DYNAMIC BIT RATE ADAPTATION OVER BANDWIDTH VARYING CONNECTION |
摘要 |
Audio and video streams of a media file are transcoded just-in-time by keeping the transcoding process synchronized to a wall clock. The transcoding is initially configured slightly faster than real-time. The transcoded frames are pushed from the transcoder through a variable bandwidth connection as soon as they are transcoded. Transcoding is then monitored periodically to assess the bandwidth that was available during the transmission of a transcoded buffer. Two time intervals are measured: a buffer interval which is the difference in the transcoded buffer timestamps of the previous two transmissions, and a clock interval corresponding to the real time transmission time of the last transcoded buffer. If a significant difference is observed, the transcoder bit rate is adjusted by a factor that is derived from that difference. |
申请公布号 |
US2016007033(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2016.01.07 |
申请号 |
US201514853868 |
申请日期 |
2015.09.14 |
申请人 |
VANTRIX CORPORATION |
发明人 |
Côté Sébastien;Krause Jean-Noël |
分类号 |
H04N19/40;H04L29/06;H04N21/24;H04N21/845;H04N21/234;H04N21/2343;H04N19/152;H04N21/643 |
主分类号 |
H04N19/40 |
代理机构 |
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代理人 |
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主权项 |
1. A method for encoding a media file or part thereof for transmission in real time over a varying bandwidth link to a mobile unit, comprising:
employing at least one processor of a transcoder for: (i) encoding one or more fragments of the media file into transcoded media fragments to form a stream fragment; (ii) sending the stream fragment to a transmission buffer of the transcoder; (iii) determining an estimated transmit time of a previously formed stream fragment, the estimated transmit time being a time interval required for said previously formed stream fragment to be conveyed from the transmission buffer and consumed by the varying bandwidth link; (iv) determining an estimated display time of said stream fragment; and (v) adjusting a current encoding rate of the transcoded media fragments as a function of the estimated transmit time and the estimated display time. |
地址 |
Montreal CA |