When capturing panoramic scene

the camera usually moves only in the horizontal direction. If we encode the captured panoramic video directly

the encoding efficiency will be low dueto the possible light dithering of the camera in the vertical direction and noise introduced by sensor. This paper presents a highly efficient algorithm for encoding panoramic video with H. 264 standard according to its special characteristics. First

we convert the original panoramic video to a panoramic image

Then we can convert the panoramic image to H. 264 bit-stream directly. Compared to the encoding of the original panoramic video

the algorithm we present highly improve the encoding efficiency.