Patent ID: 8812724

Claim:
A method for transmitting a video stream including a plurality of compressed images in a communication network, said method comprising: a step of coding a plurality of original images with motion estimation and motion compensation, including compressing the plurality of original images of the video and creating dependencies between compressed images of the plurality of compressed images, said step of coding a plurality of original images being performed based on a current rate of the video; a step of storing packets representing the compressed images into a buffer; a step of scheduling a transmission of packets representing the compressed images of the video stream, including ordering the compressed images together according to a selected order for their transmission over the communication network; a step of controlling the rate of the video; a step of modifying a state of the compressed images in the buffer based on a new rate of the video; at least one step of reconsidering the selected order of transmission already compressed but not yet transmitted images in the buffer and deleting at least one compressed image in the buffer based on said step of modifying and at a time of coding a new image that is not in the buffer; a step of coding the new image based on the new rate of the video; and wherein dependencies between the new image to be compressed and the compressed images are selected by taking into account the selected order reconsidered at the time of coding the new image.