METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING VIDEO CODEC TO BE USED BETWEEN STATIONS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC H04N19/00 

FIELD: physics, video.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting a video codec to be used between stations. The method of selecting a video codec includes: transmitting, by a station management entity (SME) of a first station, a codec selection request primitive which requests permission to use at least one codec to be used for compression of at least one video stream to a protocol adaptation layer (PAL) of the first station; transmitting, by the PAL of the first station, a codec selection request frame which requests permission to use at least one codec to a second station; and receiving, by the PAL of the first station, a codec selection response frame which indicates whether the use of the at least one codec is permitted from the second station.

EFFECT: notifying the receiving side on the type of codec used to compress video content.

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