A video decoder system, in one embodiment, includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the video decoding system to perform an entropy decoding operation in a frame level pipelined manner on a bitstream representative of encoded video data to produce first output data, perform at least one of an inverse quantization operation or an inverse frequency transform operation in a row level pipelined manner on the first output data to produce second output data, perform a deblocking filtering operation on first input data that includes the second output data in a row level pipelined manner to produce third output data, and output a decoded video output based on the third output data.