Abstract: Various technologies for a layered texture compression architecture. In one implementation, the layered texture compression architecture may include a texture consumption pipeline. The texture compression pipeline may include a processor, memory devices, and textures compressed at varying ratios of compression. The textures within the pipeline may be compressed at ratios in accordance with characteristics of the devices in the pipeline that contains and processes the textures.

Abstract: Transcoding hierarchical B-frames with rate-distortion optimization in the DCT domain is described. More particularly, and in one aspect, input media content is transcoded from an original bit rate to a reduced bit rate. The input media content includes multiple hierarchical bidirectional frames (“B-frames”), multiple intra-frames (I-frames), and multiple predictive frames (P-frames). Each B-frame is open-loop transcoded in view of the reduced bit rate by optimizing texture and motion rate-distortion in the DCT domain to generate a respective portion of transcoded media content. The transcoded media content, which includes transcoded B-frames, I-frames, and P-frames, is provided to a user for viewing.