Timing and Synchronization Using MPEG-2 Transport Streams

David K. Fibush

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 and 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 to analyze transport stream data to determine the values and correctness of the various time stamps.

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Published
1996-07
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J17209