STREAMING BITRATE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT

摘要

A bitrate control and management system enables control of the compression module. In one embodiment, the system comprises a server in communication with a client device over a network. The server includes a processor and a compression module. The processor outputs data and one or more bitrate control commands to the compression module. The compression module encodes the data received from the processor according to the one or more bitrate control commands. In one embodiment, the data output by the processor may be rendered by another processor prior to being received by the compression module. Once encoded, the data is sent to the client device over the network. The client device includes a decompression module that receives and decodes the data received from the server. The client device may include a display and a video encoder that encodes the decoded data into a display signal compatible with the display.