Conditional Access to H.264/AVC Video by Means of Redundant Slices
In this paper a novel conditional access scheme for the distribution of H.264/AVC video is presented. The algorithm permits to cypher the full quality video, while guaranteeing free access to a reduced quality video that can be used as preview. The scheme is based on the novel coding options, introduced in the H.264 standard, and therefore is fully compliant with the standard syntax. The secured video stream exhibits a very small rate overhead and requires limited supplementary computational cost at coding time.