MPEG‐1 Systems: Laying the MPEG‐2 Foundation
Jan van der Meer · 2014
This chapter discusses the objectives and requirements of moving picture experts group-1 (MPEG-1) system. An MPEG-1 system stream carries one or more elementary streams, multiplexed together. The chapter presents an example of the MPEG-1 system stream data structure. The MPEG-1 system target decoder (STD) defines two decoding branches, one for MPEG-1 video and the other for MPEG-1 audio elementary streams. The chapter details the data structure and design considerations of the MPEG-1 system stream. Each MPEG-1 system stream consists of a concatenation of one or more packs; to conclude the MPEG-1 system stream, the last pack is followed by an ‘End of MPEG-1 system stream’ start code. MPEG-1 proves the feasibility of video and audio compression for many applications, and develops various system approaches essential for the success of MPEG-2 in the market.