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This article presents the iterative convergence performance of IrRegular Convolutional Codes (IRCCs) with the aid of the multidimensional Sphere Packing (SP) modulation assisted Differential Space Time Spreading Codes (IRCC-SP-DSTS) scheme for the transmission of H.264\/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) compressed video coded stream. In this article, three different regular and irregular error protection schemes are presented. In the presented Regular Error Protection (REP) scheme, all of the partitions of the video sequence are regular error protected with a rate of 3\/4 IRCC. In Irregular Error Protection scheme-1 (IREP-1) the H.264\/AVC partitions are prioritized as A, B &amp; C, respectively. Whereas, in Irregular Error Protection scheme-2 (IREP-2), the H.264\/AVC partitions are prioritized as B, A, and C, respectively. 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