Patent ID: 6996838

Claim:
A method in a video decoding system for adapting to resource constraints, said method comprising steps of: configuring a first resource access priority assignment to a plurality of resource consuming operations, each resource consuming operation being assigned a priority according to the first resource access priority assignment; configuring a second resource access priority assignment that is different than the first resource access priority assignment to the plurality of resource consuming operations, each resource consuming operation being assigned a priority according to the second resource access priority assignment; receiving a user input corresponding to performing a second media processing task, said second media processing task corresponding to a second amount of resource consumption, said user input being received while performing a first media processing task according to the first configured resource access priority assignment, said first media processing task corresponding to a first amount of resource consumption; responsive to the user input determining whether a resource constrained mode is to be initiated to perform simultaneously the first and second media processing tasks; and responsive to determining that the resource constrained mode is to be initiated, initiating the resource constrained mode according to the second configured resource access priority assignment.