The invention provides an entropy coding structure and a realization method, which belong to the technical field of 
digital video coding and decoding. In the invention, the whole entropy coder is divided into two stages of 
assembly line structures, and the generation and coding of 
macro block header parameters are finished in different 
assembly line stages, so 
waiting time is avoided, and simultaneously, coding time is rationally distributed. A single-path 
assembly line 
hardware structure is adopted in each stage of 
assembly line, and compared with the conventional multipath parallel structure, the plurality of stages of 
assembly line structures adopted by the whole 
variable length coding module finish the operations of 
one stage only within 1 hour, and the entropy coder provided by the invention can finish once 
variable length coding in 1 hour; and simultaneously, sequentially coded 
macro block header information and residual coefficients 
multiplex a set of Columbus coding and code 
stream splicing device, so hardware cost is saved, and 
resource utilization rate is increased. In addition, unified laying-out is performed on a 
variable length coding (VLC) 
code table used by the variable length coding, and the using number of 
random access memories (RAM) is reduced.