An analytical framework to model an H.264 video encoder for transmission on the Internet

Abstract- One of the most widely used encoding standards for video transmission at a low bit rate is H.264. Many techniques have been introduced in the literature to control the output stream of an H.264 encoder, in order to respect the available bandwidth or the declared bandwidth. The majority of them allow users to define a given target for the output bit rate of an H.264 video source; this is achieved by skipping captured frames before encoding. The higher the number of frames the encoder skips, the higher the motion discontinuity perceived by the human eye. The main contribution of the framework is to support designers in the choice of H.264 traffic descriptors during call setup, such as the per-frame target parameter, representing the maximum number of packets the source can transmit in the network in a frame interval. 1