Patent ID: 7142599

Claim:
A method for selecting a method from a set of methods of transcoding video data, said data being liable to be transmitted between at least two communication apparatuses via a communication network, wherein said selection method comprises the following steps: determining at least one weighting factor W 1 , W 2 to attribute to each of the transcoding methods of the set, said at least one weighting factor depending on the data to be transcoded; weighting a mean value of at least one characteristic representative of each of the transcoding methods of the set by applying adapted weighting factors W 1 , W 2 ; and selecting a transcoding method as a function of the weighted mean values, wherein it comprises a prior step of obtaining a mean value of at least one characteristic representative of each of the transcoding methods of the set, for each method, on the basis of a plurality of values of the characteristic considered which have respectively been obtained by the application of the method concerned to a plurality of so-called training data sequences.