Patent ID: 8325821

Claim:
A time-multiplexed video transcoding method comprising: receiving a plurality of independent input video streams, each input video stream including payload data encoding a sequence of groups of pictures (GOPs), the plurality of independent input video streams including header data characterizing each input video stream syntactically as a single video stream; assembling a syntactically-unified input video stream by interleaving GOPs from the plurality of input video streams into the syntactically-unified input video stream, wherein the syntactically-unified input video stream comprises header data characterizing the syntactically-unified input video stream syntactically as a single video stream; inputting the syntactically-unified input video stream to an input port of a transcoder to transcode the syntactically-unified input video stream within a single stream context of the transcoder to generate a syntactically-unified output video stream; and recovering a plurality of independent output video streams by de-interleaving GOPs from the syntactically-unified output video stream, and assembling the de-interleaved GOPs into the plurality of independent output video streams, each independent output video stream containing a transcoded content of a corresponding independent input video stream.