Video Traffic Characteristics of Modern Encoding Standards: H.264/AVC with SVC and MVC Extensions and H.265/HEVC

Figure 4

Traffic characteristics and link bandwidth requirements for H.265/HEVC with cascading QPs for a variety of videos, as well as comparison of H.265/HEVC (with cascaded QPs) with H.264/AVC (with cascaded QPs) for Tears of Steel (ToS) video.

(a) Rate-distortion (RD) curve

(b) VD curve at encoder output

(c) Buffer required for GoP smoothing

(d) VD curve after smoother

(e) 𝐶_min for 4 streams

(f) 𝐶_min for 256 streams