Patent ID: 8594191

Claim:
A video processing system comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit a video signal video streams over one or more radio frequency (RF) channels to a receiving device; a control module coupled to the transceiver, the control module configured to detect a channel characteristic indicative of an ability of the one or more RF channels to deliver the video signal to the receiving device; a video selection module coupled to the control module to select, in accordance with the channel characteristic detected by the control module, a first digital format of the video signal to be transmitted by the transceiver to the receiving device; and a transcoding module, coupled to the video selection module, that generates the video signal in the first digital format by transcoding from a second digital format wherein the second digital format includes a plurality of video streams including a base layer stream and at least one additional layer stream that enhances the base layer stream and wherein the transcoding includes synchronizing and combining selected ones of the base layer stream and the at least one additional layer stream.