Patent ID: 8908757

Claim:
A multi-channel video communication method, comprising: detecting network status information and attributes of at least two remote clients, and establishing a video communication connection; selecting a video encoding parameter corresponding to each remote client according to the network status information and the attributes of each remote client; encoding raw video data according to the video encoding parameter respectively, and obtaining an encoded video bit-stream corresponding to each remote client; transmitting the respectively encoded video bit-stream to each corresponding remote client; wherein selecting the video encoding parameter corresponding to each remote client according to the network status information and the attributes of each remote client comprises: selecting a video encoding parameter from video encoding parameters corresponding to respective remote clients in accordance with the video encoding parameter providing a maximum video distortion improvement when applying the same encoding bit rate to each video codec corresponding to each respective remote client; and defining a current video encoding parameter for a remote client corresponding to the selected video encoding parameter to the selected video encoding parameter.