Author : Anu Rachel Roy and Rincy Merin Varkey

H.264/AVC is newest video coding standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. The main goals of the H.264/AVC standardization effort have been enhanced compression performance and provision of a network-friendly video representation addressing conversational (video telephony) and non conversational (storage, broadcast, or streaming) applications. H.264/AVC has achieved a significant improvement in rate-distortion efficiency relative to existing standards. For huge systems like video processing, FPGA prototyping plays an important role before taping out. In this paper, a verification system for H.264/AVC encoders with FPGA prototyping is proposed and implemented.

Keywords: H.264, Motion Estimation, Run Length Encoding, DCT.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.6 (Dec-2015)