Patent ID: 8265168

Claim:
An integrated circuit for transmitting a video stream over a network to a display device, comprising: a media processing unit configured to convert a source video stream into a target video stream in accordance with a command received from the display device, the media processing unit comprising: a frame converter configured to convert the source video stream into an intermediate video stream in a compressed format, wherein pictures of the intermediate video stream are intra-frame compressed but not inter-frame compressed, the frame converter further configured to extract motion vectors of the source video stream; a frame editor coupled to the frame converter, the frame editor configured to drop pictures of the intermediate video stream or modify a sequence of pictures of the intermediate video stream to generate a modified video stream; and an encoder coupled to the frame converter and the frame editor, the encoder configured to encode the modified video stream and generate the target video stream using the extracted motion vectors; and a network processing unit coupled to the media processing unit, the network configured to send the target video stream to the display device via the network and receive the command from the display device via the network.