Bitrate allocation for multiple video streams at competitive equilibria

Current methods for multiplexing video streams often rely on identifying the relative complexity of the video streams to improve the combined overall quality. In such methods, not all the videos benefit from the multiplexing process. Typically, the quality of high motion videos is improved at the expense of reduction in the quality of low motion videos. In our approach, we use a competitive equilibrium allocation of bitrate to simultaneously improve the quality of all the video streams by finding trades between videos across time. The proposed method not only uses information about the differing complexity of the video streams at every moment but also the differing complexity of each stream over time.