PARALLEL H.263 VIDEO ENCODER IN NORMAL CODING MODE

A parallel H.263 video encoder, which utilises spatial pal allelism, h as been modelled using a multi-threaded program. Spatial parallelism i s a technique where an image is subdivided into equal parts las far as physically possible) and each part is processed by a separate process or by computing motion and texture coding with all processors each act ing on a different part of the image. This method leads to a performan ce increase, which is roughly in proportion to the number of parallel processors used.