Architecture for video streaming application on heterogeneous platform

In this paper, we propose a new architecture, which is an efficient streaming media player application on heterogeneous platform. The streaming library can be used in design for reducing the memory bandwidth on processing RTSP/RTP/RTCP network protocols. And the proposed improvement has to do with the I-frame encoding alone. The architecture can receive higher rate for data transfer and packet loss in embedded system. The framework of the key components is able to adopt Direct Memory Access to reduce the time-consumption resulted from the communication between the dual cores. On the other hand, the approach of the dynamic quality adaption improves the video bitstream by periodically adjusting the values of encoding quality parameters. Through the experiment results, it is evident that the new video streaming architecture greatly enhances the coding efficacy. Our experimental results present that the decoding/encoding speed of the dual-core CPU embedded with Direct Memory Access is enhanced up to 50 %, and its usage of CPU resources and memory bandwidth are 50 % lower than that of the popular JRTPLIB.