Good quality video for the internet at very low bandwidth

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A method for processing digitized video material comprising the steps of: a.
capturing a video sequence having a first start-time and a first end-time to provide plurality of digitized frames; b.
filtering said frames according to a pre-determined filter function; c.
decimating said frames to reduce said frames to a pre-determined horizontal and vertical frame size; d.
encoding said filtered and decimated frames; e.
in response to said encoding step failing to encode said data at a failure time between said first start-time and said first end-time, re-defining said filter function for a selected sub-sequence of said sequence, said sub-sequence temporally including said failure time; and f.
repeating said previous steps a.
to d.
for said selected sub-sequence.
2.
A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein said re-defining step comprises dividing said video sequence into two or more sub-sequences each having a respective start-time and end-time; a selected one of said sub-sequences having a start-time and an end-time temporally including said failure time.
3.
A method according to claim 1 wherein said encoding step is performed by an MPEG encoder.
4.
A method according to claim 3 wherein said encoder is adapted to encode said data at a pre-determined bit rate and pre-determined quality level, and said encoding step fails if said encoder cannot encode said data at or below said bit rate and at or above said quality level.
5.
A method according to claim 1 where, in response to said encoding step failing to encode said data at a failure time between said first start-time and said first end-time, said video sequence is divided into first, second and third sub-sequences each having a respective start-time and end-time, and said second sub-sequence is selected to have a start-time and an end-time temporally including said failure time.
6.
A method according to claim 5 where said second sub-sequence is approximately 4 seconds long.
7.
A method according to claim 1 wherein said video sequence is captured from a digital video tape recorder