A Constant-Quality, Single-Pass VBR Control for DVD Recorders

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 653-662

  Bagni, Daniele ^a   Biffi, Bruno ^a   Ramalho, Rui ^b  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^b STMicroelectronics Ltd Bristol   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MPEG 2; Quantization; Rate Control; VBR; Visual Quality; VLIW

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

RATE CONTROL;

VIDEODISKS;

EID: 0141958019     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2003.1233794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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