Patent ID: 8737825
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium of a video decoding device having a plurality of processing units, the computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by at least one processing unit of the video decoding device decodes a video clip, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for: receiving, at the video decoding device, a video clip that comprises a plurality of video images; identifying a format of the video clip, wherein the format of a video clip indicates whether the plurality of video images in the video clip are temporally encoded; assigning slices of the plurality of video images to the plurality of processing units when the identified format indicates that the video clip is non-temporally encoded and that the plurality of video images are encoded as a plurality of slices; and decoding the assigned slices at the plurality of processing units in parallel, said decoding comprising decoding each slice independently from any other slice in the non-temporally encoded video clip, wherein each slice is non-temporally encoded without referencing any other slice.