Patent ID: 8355029

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a program for execution on a processor, the program, when executed on the processor performing a method of encoding original data in a graphics signal, the method comprising acts of: receiving video data in a first original format from a first software application; receiving audio data in a second original format from a second software application; encoding each of the video data and the audio data in at least one frame of graphics data, wherein the video data is in the first original format and the audio data is in the second original format, and wherein the video data and the audio data are encoded in a visible portion of the at least one frame of graphics data; outputting the at least one frame of graphics data with a graphics controller; decoding each of the video data and the audio data from the at least one frame of graphics data received from the graphics controller; outputting, following the act of decoding, each of the video data and the audio data; and adjusting a bandwidth of the graphics controller to meet or exceed a sum of a bandwidth of the video data in the first original format and a bandwidth of the audio data in the second original format.