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In this paper, we describe MPEGTool, an X window-based tool that can be used to generate a motion picture expert group (MPEG) encoded bit stream for video sequences and to study the statistical properties of the encoded data. The tool was designed to study the characteristics of variable bit rate video sources for transmission over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) based broadband integrated services digital network (B-ISDN). The tool, which has a window-based graphic user interface, allows a user to specify several of the MPEG parameters such as the intraframe-to-interframe ratio and the quantizer scale. The tool also includes a statistical package that allows the user to plot graphs of various statistics including bit distributions, ATM cell distributions, time se ries, autocorrelation functions and cell interarrival times.
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This work was supported in part by grant NCR 90-16165 from the National Science Foundation
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Urabe, T., Afzal, H., Ho, G. et al. MPEGTool: An X window-based MPEG encoder and statistics tool. Multimedia Systems 1, 220–229 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01268946
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01268946