MPEG-2 over IEEE1394 - Hardware Implementation II

Student: Yeen Chin Chan

Supervisor: Dr. Brian Lovell

Category: Electrical Engineering Thesis Project

The use of high-quality digital video and audio formats is rapidly increasing each day. Consumers not only want to be able to enjoy high quality audio and videos but they want to be able to stream multimedia in real time and even to digitally store and edit these video streams on a computer. To perform such operations, there has be a digital link to support such huge data transfers in between peer devices such as digital TV, DVD players, camcorders, personal computers and other high speed devices.

The IEEE1394 (also known as FireWire or i-Link)offers such a solution to move high-bandwidth video and audio traffic among the devices without going through a PC or a controller. With the present available speed of 400Mbps, 800Mbps and higher, the IEEE1394 standard is capable of wiring up an entire home network of audio and video IEEE1394 compliant appliances through just a daisy chain of cables.

With the use of the current MPEG2 compression technology for video, it is possible to achieve real time quality video streaming delivered digitally onto a PC for the purpose of viewing, storage or even editing.

The purpose of this thesis is to design an interface to transport MPEG2 streams over the IEEE1394 serial bus. The output would then be hot plug-able into an IEEE1394 capable device such as a PC to be decoded and displayed out on screen, real time.

Poster Presentation (PDF)

Thesis Document (PDF)