Patent ID: 11700382

Abstract:
An example disclosed system may include a hardware video encoding pipeline (HVEP), the HVEP that includes a prediction module that generates, using a primary prediction mode, a primary encode of a portion of a video stream, and using a secondary prediction mode, a secondary encode of the portion of the video stream. The HVEP may also include (1) a rate-distortion optimization (RDO) module that determines a primary cost associated with the primary encode and a secondary cost associated with the secondary encode, (2) a quality metric (QM) module that determines a primary QM associated with the primary encode and a secondary QM associated with the secondary encode, and (3) a decision module that selects, for an encoding of the video stream, at least one of the primary prediction mode and the secondary prediction mode based on the primary cost, the secondary cost, the primary QM, and the secondary QM.