Patent ID: 8335252

Claim:
A method for encoding groups of pictures of a video sequence, each of said groups of pictures including a single intra encoded picture and more than two predicted encoded pictures located in backward direction as well as in forward direction from said single intra encoded picture, said method comprising the steps of: intra encoding said single intra encoded picture to be intra encoded of a current group of pictures; backward predicted encoding a first part of predicted encoded pictures of said current group of pictures, starting from said intra encoded picture of said current group of pictures, and forward predicted encoding an other part of said predicted encoded pictures of said current group of pictures, starting from said intra encoded picture of said current group of pictures, wherein pictures are omitted in these forward and backward predicted encoded picture chains, and arranging every two adjacent groups of pictures of said video sequence in an overlapping manner such that missing pictures in the backward predicted encoded picture chain in said current group of pictures are included in an interleaved manner as a forward predicted encoded picture chain in a preceding group of pictures, and missing pictures in the forward predicted encoded picture chain in said current group of pictures are included in an interleaved manner as a backward predicted encoded picture chain in a following group of pictures.