Joint reference frame inter-mode selection for fast H.264 video coding

Trade-Off of Frame-Rate and Resolution in Online Game Streaming

“…Although the H.264/MPEG-AVC codec achieved about 50% increase in coding efficiency compared to earlier codecs, many researches have been proposed to improve its encoding time and efficiency (Mazhar and Abdalla, 2016). …”

Efficient Cloud Gaming Scheme Using Scene Objects Adaptation

“…Once the game objects are rendered and encoded on the cloud with higher computer specifications, the clients are required only to receive a standard encoded video stream and decode it in order to display on their screens. Therefore, we devised a new idea to take down the streamed bit rate by embedding a fast encoding algorithm [28] and to reduce encoding time by adapting the game scene. The idea based mainly on reducing the scene contents by eliminating the non-effective objects.…”

“…The rendering and encoding techniques are run on the server as a cloud gaming approach. The proposed encoding technique in [28] is recommended to be used for faster encoding process. This is done by capturing a video scene and encode it on the cloud, then transmit it to the client.…”

“…The proposed algorithm shows a combination of a fast encoding technique [28] with the proposed object adaptation technique. As the adopted encoding algorithm is already more-rapidly, and it is proposed to be run by the cloud, the encoding time became faster and acceptable for cloud gaming.…”

“…The game was played for 60 seconds, the playing scene was being captured using Fraps [30] with 30 fps and 1024×920 pixels resolutions. The captured sequences were encoded using [28] with the parameters shown in Table 1. The encoding algorithm and parameters were chosen as they give high compression performance with acceptable encoding time.…”