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System and method for communicating media signals

  • US 7,295,608 B2
  • Filed: 09/26/2002
  • Issued: 11/13/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • obtaining a media signal to be communicated to a destination agent, the media signal being separated into a plurality of segments each comprising a number of temporally adjacent frames; and

    repeating for each of the plurality of segments;

    testing a plurality of different CODECs on the segment to determine how each CODEC encodes the segment in terms of quality and compression level;

    automatically selecting the CODEC that produces the highest quality encoded output for the segment according to a set of criteria without exceeding a bandwidth constraint;

    delivering the segment encoded using the selected CODEC to the destination agent; and

    reporting to the destination agent which CODEC was used to encode the segment;

    wherein at least two segments are encoded using different CODECs.

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