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then decodes the TS and displays it.
Transport stream (
TS,
TP, or
MPEG-TS) is a
communications protocol for
Digital audio, Digital video, and
Program and System Information Protocol which is specified in
MPEG-2 Part 1, Systems (
International Organization for Standardization/
International Electrotechnical Commission standard 13818-1). Its design goal is to allow
multiplexing of digital video and audio and to
Audio video sync. Transport stream offers features for
error detection and correction for transportation over unreliable media, and is used in broadcast applications such as DVB and
ATSC Standards. It is contrasted with program stream, designed for more reliable media such as
DVDs.
Layers of communication
Similar to the OSI_model#Description_of_OSI_layers
protocol stack, a transport stream is processed by the receiver in layers. An example stream containing video may be processed as follows:
Composition of the various programs.
Packetized Elementary Stream (PES)
Elementary stream (ES) - audio or video (the below is for video only)
Group of pictures (GOP)
Slice—lowest layer that encoder can change Discrete cosine transform coding values to manage bit rate
Macroblock—consisting of 6 to 12 DCT blocks
Encoding block or just block—a DCT encoding block, 8x8 pixels
An example of data that is Multiplexer into the transport stream is an
electronic program guide. See
Program and System Information Protocol for more information.
Important elements of a transport stream
Packet
A packet is the basic unit of data in a transport stream. It consists of a
syncword, whose value is 0x47, followed by three one-bit flags and a 13-bit PID. This is followed by a 4-bit continuity counter. Additional optional transport fields, as signaled in the optional adaptation field, may follow. The rest of the packet consists of payload. Packets are 188 bytes in length {{cite book | title =ISO/IEC 13818-1 Second edition
| date = 2000-12-01
| pages = page xi or 11 according to PDF viewer
| url =http://neuron2.net/library/mpeg2/iso13818-1.pdf
-->, but the communication medium may add some error correction bytes to the packet. ATSC transmission adds 20 bytes of
Reed-Solomon forward error correction to create a packet that is 208 bytes long. The 188-byte packet size was originally chosen for compatibility with Asynchronous Transfer Mode.{|class="wikitable"|+ Partial Transport Stream Packet Format!Name!Number
of bits!Description]||8||0x47|-|Transport Error Indicator (TEI)||1|Set by
demodulator if can't correct errors in the stream] data|-|Priority||1|||-|PID||13||Program ID or Packet ID|-|Scrambling control||2|| '00' = Not scrambled|-|Adaptation field exist||1||1 means presence of the adaptation field|-|Payload data exist||1||1 means presence of data|-|Continuity counter||4|||-| || ||Note the sum of the above bits is 32 and is called the Transport Stream 4-byte prefix.|-|Adaption field||0 or more||Depends on flags|-|
Payload [Data priority indicator||1||1 = higher priority|-|PCR flag||1||1 means adaptation field does contain a PCR field|-|OPCR flag||1|||-|Splicing point flag||1||1 means presence of splice countdown field in adaptation field|-|Transport private data flag||1||1 means presence of private data bytes in adaptation field|-|Adaptation field extension flag||1||1 means presence of adaptation field extension|-|Below fields are optional||variable||Depends on flags|-|PCR||33+9|| Program clock reference|-|OPCR||33+9|| Original Program clock reference. Helps when one TS is copied into another|-|Splice countdown||8||Indicates how many TS packets from this one a splicing point occurs (may be negative)|-|stuffing bytes||variable|||}
PID
Each table or elementary stream in a transport stream is identified by a 13-bit PID. A
Inverse multiplexer extracts elementary streams from the transport stream in part by looking for packets identified by the same PID. In most applications, Time-division multiplexing will be used to decide how often a particular PID appears in the transport stream.
Programs
Transport stream has a concept of programs. A single program has a unique PID and the elementary streams associated with that program have the same PID. For instance, a transport stream used in digital television might contain three programs, to represent three television channels. Suppose each channel consists of one video stream, one or two audio streams, and any necessary metadata. A
ATSC tuner wishing to decode a particular "channel" merely has to decode the payload of the PID associated with its program. It can discard the contents of all other PIDs.
Program Specific Information (PSI)
There are 4 PSI tables: Program Association (PAT), Program Map (PMT), Conditional Access (CAT), and Network Information (NIT). The MPEG-2 specification does not specify the format of the CAT and NIT.
PAT
PAT stands for Program Association Table. The PAT lists PIDs for all PMTs in the stream. TS Packets containing PAT information always have PID 0x0.
PMT
Program Map Tables, or PMTs, contain information about programs. For each program, there is a PMT, with the PMT for each program appearing on its own PID. The PMTs describe which PIDs contain data relevant to the program. PMTs also provide metadata about the streams in their constituent PIDs. For example, if a program contains an MPEG-2 video stream, the PMT will list this PID, describe it as a video stream, and provide the type of video that it contains (in this case, MPEG-2). The PMT may also contain additional descriptors providing data about its constituent streams.
=== PCR ===To assist the decoder in presenting programs on time, at the right speed, and with synchronization, programs usually periodically provide a
Program Clock Reference, or PCR, on one of the PIDs in the program. This is also known as the master clock. Timing in MPEG2 references this clock, for example the presentation time stamp (PTS) is relative to the PCR. The first 33 bits is based on a 90kHz clock, incremented for each
Hertz or cycle. The 9 bit extension is based on a 27MHz clock.
Null packets
Some transmission schemes, such as those in ATSC Standards and DVB, impose strict constant bitrate requirements on the transport stream. In order to ensure that the stream maintains a constant bitrate, a
Multiplexer may need to insert some additional packets. The PID 0x1FFF is reserved for this purpose. The payload of null packets may not contain any data at all, and the receiver is expected to ignore its contents.
References
See also
Sample of tools available
Software:
- dvb-snoop
- ATSC Transport Stream Tools for Linux
- Tools
- Ethereal MPEG-2 TS Dissector
- DVB Stream Explorer
Hardware:
- Monitor
- TS Multiplexer
- Assorted
- ODG - Open DVB Gateway
- Transport stream analyser
External links
- MPEG-2 Systems FAQ
- MPEG-4 Systems FAQ
- MPEG-1 description
- Powerpoint MPEG-2 Transport Stream introduction
- Splicing FAQ
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