With the widespread use of technologies like digital

television, internet streaming video and DVD video,

video compression has become an inevitable component

of broadcast and entertainment media. Currently, the

video codec that achieves the highest data compression

without sacrificing on the picture quality is the MPEG-4

Part 10 Advanced Video Coding, also known as the

H.264 [1-3]. This codec has many new features such as

intra-fr a me prediction, 4x4 integer transform,

quantization, context adaptive entropy coding,

deblocking filter etc., which were not available in the

earlier standards. The present work has realized some

of the above features. The implementation conforms to