Usage of MPEG-4 Video on OSGi Devices

Abstract

Deployment of OSGi platform on Consumer Electronics (CE) devices may be a reasonable solution that allows making flexible dynamic configuration of software environment on devices with limited resources. In this paper we developed a prototype that shows how OSGi downloadable software components (bundles) can make encoding, streaming and decoding of MPEG-4 video.Evaluation of the prototype performance shows that the most critical factor that affects the quality of low bit rate MPEG-4 video is encoding time so that usage of effective hardware encoders may be necessary in many CE devices 1 .