Patent ID: 7830800

Claim:
An integrated circuit for converting media streams for transport over a network, comprising: a media processing unit, coupled to the network to receive information on network conditions, the media processing unit configured to: extract motion parameters from an input media stream in a first compressed format responsive to receiving the input media stream, the first compressed format including input frames that are interframe compressed and intraframe compressed; convert the input media stream in the first compressed format into an intermediate media stream in a second format by applying the extracted motion parameters to the input frames and generating intermediate frames that are intraframe compressed but not interframe compressed; perform processing on the intermediate frames based on the network conditions information; and encode the processed intermediate media stream into an output media stream in a third compressed format for transport over the network by applying the extracted motion parameters to the processed intermediate media stream, the third compressed format including processed frames that are interframe compressed and intraframe compressed.