Internet video is emerging as an important
multimedia application area. Although development and use of video
applications is increasing, the ability to manipulate and
process video is missing within this application
area. Current video
effects processing solutions are not well matched for the Internet
video environment. A software-only solution, however, provides
enough flexibility to match the constraints and needs of a particular
video application. The key to a software solution is
exploiting parallelism. This paper presents the design of a parallel
software-only video effects processing system. Preliminary
experimental results exploring the use of temporal parallelism are
presented.