H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is the latest generation standard from the ITU-T and ISO/IEC

MPEG standardization bodies and it builds on the success of the previous ITU-T and

MPEG standards. H.264/MPEG-4 AVC offers major advantages compared with

previous standards, among them its high compression efficiency, although it demands a

high degree of computational complexity to be able to make use of the advantages of its

new techniques. In this paper several implementation issues of the H.264/MPEG-4

AVC standard have been reviewed, dealing with some of the real time challenges that

appear on this kind of implementation. This implementation is to be executed on a

general purpose DSP conforming with the requirements of the broadcast environments

and should provide very important advantages over an MPEG-2 Encoder system.