@InProceedings{Sablatschan2010a, author = {Sablatschan, Michael and Ortiz Murillo, Jordi and Ransburg, Michael and Hellwagner, Hermann}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop SVCVision, in conjunction with the 6th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia 2010)}, title = {Efficient SVC-to-AVC Conversion at a Media Aware Network Element}, year = {2010}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg, New York}, editor = {Rodriguez, Jonathan and Tafazolli, Rahim and Verikoukis, Christos}, month = {sep}, pages = {7}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {H.264/SVC, the Scalable Video Coding extension of the H.264/AVC video coding standard, features spatial, quality and temporal scalability. Backwards compatibility with legacy decoding devices is maintained through an H.264/AVC compliant base layer, which represents the lowest quality of an H.264/SVC bit-stream. However, it is often desireable to also provide the higher quality layers to legacy H.264/AVC devices. This is achieved by a process commonly known as "bit-stream rewriting", which allows for an efficient H.264/SVC to H.264/AVC conversion by exploiting the similarities of the two codecs. This paper describes a demonstrator showing the advantages of including an improved version of the bit-stream rewriting tool from the existing JSVM H.264/SVC reference software in an H.264/SVC-based multimedia delivery system, by integrating it into a Media Aware Network Element.}, keywords = {Multimedia Adaptation, H.264/SVC, SVC-to-AVC rewriting}, language = {EN}, talktype = {none} }