• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.769-777
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• 2003

We present a striping technique that MPEG-1 video streams ell a disk array can be efficiently played back at different resolution levels. For the MPEG-1 compression algorithm, the proposed multi-level encoding technique first partitions the parent video stream in the temporal dimension. Each frame in the sub-stream is then Partitioned in the chroma dimension yielding a low resolution and a residual component. The multimedia server stores blocks of different components on consecutive disks in a round robin manner. As a result, the lower the resolution level being maintained, the smaller is the number of disks accessed by each client. To effectively utilize a disk array and to maximize the number of clients that can be serviced simultaneously, the proposed technique interleaves the storage of the component of sub-streams among the disks in the array We empirically validate and evaluate this striping technique through simulation in order to show the improvement of its performance on the server.