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A portable fault-tolerant parallel software MPEG-1 encoder

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MPEG video compression is quite difficult to achieve in real time, and hardware solutions for this problem are expensive. We present a portable, fault-tolerant, parallel, MPEG-1 encoder implemented in software. We detail the implementation strategy for the encoder and give performance results on a network of workstations and a massively parallel processor. We also show that our encoder can efficiently adapt to fluctuating processing power typical in workstation networks.

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    Iskender Agi & R. Jagannathan

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Agi, I., Jagannathan, R. A portable fault-tolerant parallel software MPEG-1 encoder. Multimed Tools Appl 2, 183–197 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00455017

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