Video processing apparatus and method

A video processing apparatus, comprising:

• a decoder for decoding a bitstream, wherein the bitstream comprises a plurality of groups of pictures and each group of pictures comprises a frame sequence;
• a controller, coupled to the decoder, for determining whether a current frame of a current group of pictures to be displayed has macroblocks with forward reference to a previous frame of a previous group of pictures, wherein the current group of pictures is subsequent to the previous group of pictures;
• and
• a display device, coupled to the controller, for displaying the current frame of the current group of pictures when the current frame has no macroblock with forward reference to the previous frame of the previous group of pictures;
• wherein the previous frame of the previous group of pictures is determined to be referenced by the current frame of the current group of pictures according to specified information from the encoding of the current frame.