Inventors:
Gregory O. Vines - Poway CA
International Classification:
H04J 324
Abstract:
A method to eliminate objectionable artifacts that occur at the transition between two independently created MPEG-2 transport streams is provided herein. The method processes all of the elementary streams in one program of a transport stream to eliminate partial or missing information at the transitions. The length of the transport stream is altered so that its presentation duration is exactly equal to its transmission duration. A fixed delay is used between the beginning of transmission and the beginning of presentation. The same delay is used between the end of transmission and the end of presentation. The transport stream transmission duration is set by adjusting the number of transport packets and altering the system clock frequency.