Introduction.- Background and Related Work.- Adaptive Low-Power Architectures for Embedded Multimedia Systems.- Adaptive Low-Power Video Coding.- Adaptive Low-Power Reconfigurable Processor Architecture.- Power Measurement of the Reconfigurable Processors.- Benchmarks and Results.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Appendix A: A Multi-Level Rate Control.- Appendix B: Simulation Environment the H.264 Video Encoder Demonstration.- Appendix C: The CES Video Analyzer Tool.