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Figure 8.13: Overview of MPEG-2 Transport Streams<br />

The MPEG-2 standard speci es two k<strong>in</strong>ds of streams to carry coded video: <strong>the</strong><br />

\Transport Stream" and <strong>the</strong> \Program Stream". The latter is used <strong>for</strong> compatibility<br />

with MPEG-1 (used <strong>for</strong> stored compressed video/audio), while <strong>the</strong> <strong>for</strong>mer is used to<br />

carry compressed video over networks which may not provide an end-to-end constant<br />

delay and jitter-free abstraction.<br />

A Transport Stream can carry several programs multiplexed <strong>in</strong>to one stream.<br />

Each program may consist of several \elementary streams," each conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g MPEG-2<br />

compressed video, audio, and o<strong>the</strong>r streams like close-captioned text, etc.<br />

Figure 8.13 shows one such program stream <strong>for</strong>med by multiplex<strong>in</strong>g a compressed<br />

video and a compressed audio elementary stream. Speci cally, <strong>the</strong> gure shows <strong>the</strong><br />

uncompressed video/audio stream go<strong>in</strong>g through <strong>the</strong> MPEG-2 elementary encoder to<br />

<strong>for</strong>m <strong>the</strong> elementary stream. Typically, <strong>the</strong> uncompressed stream consists of frames<br />

generated at constant <strong>in</strong>tervals (called \frame display times") of 33 ms (NTSC <strong>for</strong>-<br />

mat) or 40 ms (PAL <strong>for</strong>mat). These frames (or \Group of Pictures" <strong>in</strong> MPEG-2<br />

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