Security video communication is a challenging task,especially for wireless video applications.An efficient security multimedia system on embedded platform is designed.By analyzing the hardware architecture and resource,the efficient DSP-based H.264/AVC coding is studied by efficient video coding techniques and system optimizing implementation.To protect the confidentiality and integrity of media information,a novel security mechanism is presented,which includes user identify authentication and a perceptual video encryption algorithm based on exploiting the special feature of entropy coding in H.264.Experimental results show that the proposed hardware framework has high performance and achieves a better balance between security and efficiency.The proposed security mechanism can achieve high security and low complexity cost,and has a little effect on the compression ratio and transmission bandwidth.Whats more,encoding and encryption at the same time,the performance of data process can meet real-time application.