THREAD-PARALLEL MPEG-2 AND MPEG-4 ENCODERS FOR SHARED-MEMORY SYSTEM-ON-CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS

V.A. Chouliaras, T.R. Jacobs, J.L. Núñez-Yanez, K. Manolopoulos, K. Nakos, and D. Reisis

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