Markus A Adhiwiyogo

Benjamin R Ernest-Jones

We are proposing to build an H.261 decoder/encoder with a user friendly

GUI. The program will read in a .CIF or .QCIF YUV file, encode it

according to the H.261 video standard, and be able to decode it back

into the original YUV format. For mid-term, we expect to have an

encoder thats works with our decoder.

By the end of the semester, our encoder will be able to create files

with the appropriate header information that can be read by any generic

H.261 decoder. We will attempt to find an appropriate balance between

speed and picture quality for our final decoder. The program will also

have a completed GUI (either for a PC or UNIX system - to be decided).

If time permits, we will attempt to make our encoder send a bit-stream

to the decoder in order to be able to send a video stream directly from

a digital camera to our encoder and GUI display.