Patent ID: 9609317
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: employing software running on at least one programmable processor to assemble a syntactically-unified input video stream by interleaving groups of pictures (GOPs) from a plurality of independent input video streams into the syntactically-unified input video stream; employing a special-purpose hardware transcoder connected to the at least one programmable processor to transcode the syntactically-unified input video stream to generate a syntactically-unified output video stream; employing software running on the at least one programmable processor to recover a plurality of independent output video streams by de-interleaving GOPs from the syntactically-unified output video stream, and assembling the de-interleaved GOPs into the plurality of independent output video streams, each independent output video stream containing a transcoded content of a corresponding independent input video stream.