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H.261 is a video coding standard recommended by the International Telecommunication union (ITU). Its target application is to provide a real-time video transmission over the integrated service digital network(ISDN). The typical applications of H.261 codec are the video-phone and video-conference systems. H.261 is a hybrid DPCM / DCT video codec and the coding kernel contains the motion estimation, the motion compensation and the discrete cosine transform. Due to the intensive computation involved, the current H.261 products are almost developed with hardware solution or high-end workstation-based. Thanks to the rapid advance in CPU computing power, the PC-based realtime software H.261 codec (as is shown in this paper) becomes feasible and practical.
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