1. A parallel deblocking filtering method for removing edge or boundary artifacts created during video compression, comprising: with a deblocking filter processor, loading a set of luma samples for a macroblock; filtering a set of vertical edges of the macroblock using information in the loaded set of luma samples, wherein the filtering of the vertical edges is performed at least partially concurrently with the loading of the set of luma samples; and filtering a set of horizontal edges of the macroblock using information in the loaded set of luma samples, wherein the filtering of the horizontal edges is performed at least partially concurrently with the filtering of the vertical edges.