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- the present invention is concerned with methods and apparatus for transmitting recorded material, such as video, audio of other material to be played in real time, over a network.
- a method of transmitting a recording comprising:
- the invention provides a method of transmitting a recording comprising:
- FIG 1 is a block diagram of a transmission system embodying the invention
- Figure 2 is a timing diagram
- Figure- 3 is a flowchart explaining the operation of the control unit shown in Figure 1 ;
- Figure 4 is a flowchart explaining an alternative mode of operation of the control unit;
- Figure 5 is a flowchart explaining a yet further version.
- a streamer 1 contains (or has access to) a store 11 in which are stored files each being a compressed version of a video sequence, encoded using a conventional compression algorithm such as that defined in the ITU standard H.261 or H.263, or one of the ISO MPEG standards. Naturally one may store similar recordings of further video sequences, but this is not important to the principles of operation.
- bit-rate here is meant the bit-rate generated by the original encoder and consumed by the ultimate decoder; in general this is not the same as the rate at which the streamer actually transmits, which will be referred to as the transmitting bit-rate.
- VBR variable bit-rate
- the server has a transmitter 12 which serves to output data via a network 2 to a terminal 3.
- the transmitter is conventional, perhaps operating with a well known protocol such as TCP/IP.
- a control unit 13 serves in conventional manner to receive requests from the terminal for delivery of a particular sequence, and to read packets of data from the store 11 for sending to the transmitter 12 as and when the transmitter is able to receive them.
- the data are read out as discrete packets, often one packet per frame of video, though the possibility of generating more than one packet for a single frame is not excluded. (Whilst is in principle possible for a single packet to contain data for more than one frame, this is not usually of much interest in practice).
- the terminal 3 has a receiver 31 , a buffer 32, and a decoder 33.
- Some networks include TCP/IP networks have the characteristic that the available transmitting data rate fluctuates according to the degree of loading on the network.
- an encoded video sequence consists of N packets.
- t time index
- b bits
- each packet corresponds to one frame, and the time-stamps t; increase monotonically, that is, t (+1 > t, for all i. If however a frame can give rise to two or more packets (each with the same t,) then t, +1 > t, . If frames can run out of capture- and-display sequence (as in MPEG) then the t, do not increase monotonically. Also, in practice, some frames may be dropped, so that there will be no frame for a particular value of t, .
- the data to be sent in that time are that for packets h toy, viz.
- Equation (4) Equation (4)
- t ⁇ _, - t g is the difference between the time-stamp of the most recently received packet in the buffer and the time stamp of the least recently received packet in the buffer - i.e. the one that we have just started to decode.
- Equation (7) represents the maximum timing error that may occur from the transmission of packet h up to the end of the sequence, and the condition states, in effect that this error must not exceed the ability of the receiver buffer to accommodate it, given its current contents.
- T h - i.e.
- Equation (7) may be written as T h ⁇ . l - t g (9)
- T h ⁇ . l - t g 9
- one of the functions of the control unit 13 is that, each time it sends a packet to the transmitter 12, it evaluates the test embodied in Equation 10.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing operation of the control unit.
- a packet counter is reset.
- the first packet or on subsequent iterations, the next packet
- the control unit computes the value of T n .
- the counter n points to the last packet sent, whereas Equation (10) is formulated for the last packet sent being fc-1. Consequently the calculation at step 103 is of T n+l and the test performed at step 104 is whether T n+l ⁇ t n - t 0 .
- the packet counter is incremented at 106 and control returns to step 102 where, as soon as the transmitter is ready to accept it, a further packet is read out and transmitted. If the test is passed, then it is known that the receiver is safe to begin decoding as soon as it has received this packet. Therefore at step 105 the control unit sends to the transmitter a "start" message to be sent to the receiver. When the receiver receives this start message, it begins decoding. If there is any possibility of messages being received in a different order from that in which they were sent, then the start message should contain the packet index n so that the receiver may check that packet n has actually been received before it commences decoding.
- the transmitter could send values of T n+1 to the receiver, and the receiver itself performs the test.
- the packet counter is incremented at 107 and another frame transmitted at 108: these steps are repeated until the end of the file is reached, this being recognised at 109 and the process terminates at 110.
- the preceding description assumes that the control unit performs this calculation each time it sends a packet to the transmitter, which is computationally quite intensive.
- An alternative is to perform the calculation less often, perhaps once every five packets, which reduces the amount of computation but may result in the buffering of more frames than is necessary.
- Another alternative is to complete the computation as soon as it is able to do so (i.e. without waiting for the next packet) and then send a start message (with starting packet number) to the receiver.
- a yet further alternative is to perform the computation before transmitting any packets at all. Once the value of h is determined, we then transmit packets 0 to h- in reverse order (packet h -1 , packet h - 2, ... packet 0). In this case it ceases to be necessary to transmit an explicit "start" command. Standard receivers that support UDP transport protocol are able to reorder packets, and will automatically wait until packet 0 has arrived before commencing decoding. In fact, it is sufficient that packet 0 is withheld until after packets 1 to h -1 have been sent (whose order is immaterial).
- steps 103 and 104 would be replaced by the test "is current value of n equal to the value of n stored in the file?"; or "does current frame contain the start flag?".
- the separate field (or flag) could be forwarded to the receiver and this recognition process performed at the receiving end.
- FIG 4 shows a flowchart of a process for dealing with the situation where the transmitting data rate R varies.
- this involves T h for every packet and storing this value in the packet header.
- the calculation of T h involves the value of R, which is of course unknown at the time of this pre-processing. Therefore we proceed by calculating T h for a selection of possible values of R, for example (if R A is the average bit rate of the file in question)
- R, 0.5R ⁇
- R 2 0.7R ⁇
- each packet h has these five precalculated values of T h stored in it. If required (for the purposes to be discussed below) one may also store the relative time position at which the maximum in Equation (8)) occurs, that is,
- T h The estimate of T h could be performed simply by using the value T h ⁇ associated with R " ; this would work, but since it would overestimate T h it would result, at times, in the receiver waiting longer than necessary.
- Another option would be by linear (or other) interpolation between the values of T h stored for the two values of Ri ... R 5 each side of the actual value R.
- R ' is the highest one of the rates R ⁇ ... R 5 that is less than the actual value of R, T; is the precalculated T h for this rate, ⁇ t, _ max is the time from t, at which T ⁇ is obtained
- the second test is Z 2 ⁇ 0
- the xth test is Z ⁇ 0
- Step 201 T 0 is calculated in accordance with Equation (8), then (Step 202) Z 0 is set equal to T 0 .
- step 203 a packet counter is reset. Then (204) the first packet (or on subsequent iterations, the next packet) is read from the store 1 1 and sent to the transmitter 12.
- the control unit computes the value of Z n+I , and the test performed at step 206 as to whether Z ⁇ +1 ⁇ 0. If the test is passed, then it is known that the receiver is safe to begin decoding as soon as it has received this packet.
- step 207 the control unit sends to the transmitter a "start" message to be sent to the receiver.
- the receiver receives this start message, it begins decoding.
- the packet counter is incremented at 208 and control returns to step 204 where, as soon as the transmitter is ready to accept it, a further packet is read out and transmitted.
- the step 201 of calculating T 0 could be done in advance and the values stored. This procedure could of course be adapted, in a similar manner to that previously described, to accommodate different values of R.
- T 0 It is not essential that this process begin with T 0 .
- T In which case the first test is 7j ⁇ 0 ?) or, if one chooses always to buffer at least two (or more) packets one could start with T 2 , etc.
- these methods may be used in combination with the rate-switching method described in our international patent application WO04/086721.
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