Evaluating and Implementing H.264 for Embedded and Mobile Streaming Applications

This paper aims to provide an overview of the emerging video coding standard H.264/AVC in embedded environments typical for mobile streaming. After a description of the H.264 special network adaption layer and the required functionality of a compliant encoder, packetizer and streaming server, reliability and bandwidth efficiency are being discussed using RTP and reliable RTP as possible candidates on the network layer. The main focus of this paper is put on implementation issues for embedded systems including an analysis of the decoder complexity.