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Main Authors: Rudolph, Michael, De Fré, Matthias, Schnier, Finn, Wauters, Tim, Rizk, Amr
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08417
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author Rudolph, Michael
De Fré, Matthias
Schnier, Finn
Wauters, Tim
Rizk, Amr
author_facet Rudolph, Michael
De Fré, Matthias
Schnier, Finn
Wauters, Tim
Rizk, Amr
contents On-the-fly transcoding of dynamic point cloud sequences reduces storage requirements and virtually increases the number of available representations for on demand streaming scenarios. On-the-fly transcoding introduces, however, additional workload to media providers' infrastructure. While V-PCC encoded content can be efficiently transcoded by re-encoding the underlying video bitstreams, which greatly benefits from hardware-accelerated video codec implementations, the scalability of such a system remains unclear. In this work, we introduce and evaluate a dynamic point cloud streaming system that utilizes on-the-fly transcoding. We explore the limits of scalability of this system in terms of request fulfillment times, specifically evaluating the perceived user Quality of Experience. We empirically show how caching and speculative transcoding allow to significantly reduce transcoding loads, allowing to scale to a higher number of simultaneous clients.
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spellingShingle Scalable On-the-fly Transcoding for Adaptive Streaming of Dynamic Point Clouds
Rudolph, Michael
De Fré, Matthias
Schnier, Finn
Wauters, Tim
Rizk, Amr
Multimedia
On-the-fly transcoding of dynamic point cloud sequences reduces storage requirements and virtually increases the number of available representations for on demand streaming scenarios. On-the-fly transcoding introduces, however, additional workload to media providers' infrastructure. While V-PCC encoded content can be efficiently transcoded by re-encoding the underlying video bitstreams, which greatly benefits from hardware-accelerated video codec implementations, the scalability of such a system remains unclear. In this work, we introduce and evaluate a dynamic point cloud streaming system that utilizes on-the-fly transcoding. We explore the limits of scalability of this system in terms of request fulfillment times, specifically evaluating the perceived user Quality of Experience. We empirically show how caching and speculative transcoding allow to significantly reduce transcoding loads, allowing to scale to a higher number of simultaneous clients.
title Scalable On-the-fly Transcoding for Adaptive Streaming of Dynamic Point Clouds
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08417