Timing and Synchronization Using MPEG-2 Transport Streams

MPEG-2 transport streams are being applied throughout the world to deliver compressed audio, and video in addition to data and control signals. An understanding of the timing and synchronization of compressed television is important to system design and operations just as it is with today's full bandwidth signals. This paper describes the formation of the transport stream with its timing elements as well as their use at the receiver. It also briefly describes test equipment that has been developed to stress the receiver reference clock phase-locked-loop and analyze transport stream data to determine the values and correctness of the various time stamps.

Published

1995-09

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00486

ISBN

978-1-61482-923-2