Accelerating the Processing of a Stream of Media Data Using a Client Media Engine

A computing system for streaming media data, comprising:

• a main processing system and a main memory;
• a media engine having a local controller and a local memory;
• the main processing system executing machine-readable instructions to perform operations including:
• receiving encrypted media data, the encrypted media data being generated by a source computing system at a first resolution;
• and
• instructing the media engine to process the encrypted media data,
• the media engine executing machine-readable instructions to perform a pipeline of integrated media-processing operations in response to the instructing,
• the media-processing operations being controlled by the local controller and utilizing the local memory, the media-processing operations including:
• in a decrypting operation, producing decrypted media data by decrypting the encrypted media data;
• in a decoding operation, producing decoded media data by decoding the decrypted media data;
• in an enhancing operation, producing enhanced media data by enhancing the decoded media data, the enhanced media data having a second resolution that is greater than the first resolution;
• and
• storing the enhanced media data in the local memory for output to an output system.

A computer-readable storage medium for storing computer-readable instructions, a client system executing the computer-readable instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving an instruction from a main processing system of the client system to process encrypted media data, the encrypted media data being sent by a source computing system at a first resolution and received by the client system;
• performing, by a media engine of the client system, a pipeline of integrated media-processing operations in response to the instruction,
• the media-processing operations being controlled by a local controller of the media engine,
• the media-processing operations involving interaction with a local memory of the media engine,
• the media-processing operations including:
• in a decrypting operation, producing decrypted media data by decrypting the decrypted media data, and storing the decrypted media data in the local memory;
• in a decoding operation, producing decoded media data by decoding the decrypted media data, and storing the decoded media data in the local memory;
• and
• in an enhancing operation, producing enhanced media data by enhancing the decoded media data, and storing the enhanced media data in the local memory, the enhanced media data having a second resolution that is greater than the first resolution.