STORAGE/PLAYBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MPEG-2 TRANSPORT STREAM BASED ON ISO BASE MEDIA FILE FORMAT

• US 20100135646A1
• Filed: 04/04/2008
• Published: 06/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Hyun-Cheol, Bang, Gun, Lee, Han-Kyu, Ki, Myung-Seok, Kim, Hui-Young, Hong, Jin-Woo
• Application Number:
  US12/594,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20100135646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4305 Synchronising client clock from received content stream, e.g. locking decoder clock with encoder clock, extraction of the PCR packets arrangements for synchronising receiver with transmitter by comparing receiver clock with transmitter clock H04L7/0012; arrangements for synchronising receiver with transmitter wherein the receiver takes measures against momentary loss of synchronisation H04L7/0083
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85406 involving a specific file format, e.g. MP4 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/92 Transformation of the television signal for recording, e.g. modulation, frequency changing; Inverse transformation for playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for storing and playing back an MPEG-2 TS based on an ISO-based media file format. The method includes: storing a target MPEG-2 TS in an mdat box of the ISO-based media file format; and dividing the MPEG-2 TS by samples through time information, location information, size information, and Program Map Table (PMT) related information for random access and describing the divided samples in an moov box of the ISO based media file format.

Claims

1. A method for storing a Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG)-2 Transport Stream (TS) in an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) based media file format, comprising:

storing a target MPEG-2 TS in an mdat box of the ISO-based media file format;

dividing the MPEG-2 TS by samples through time information, location information, size information, and Program Map Table (PMT) related information for random access and describing the divided samples in an moov box of the ISO-based media file format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in said storing a target MPEG-2 TS and said dividing the MPEG-2 TS, the MPEG-2 TS is regarded as one sample.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein in said storing a target MPEG-2 TS and said dividing the MPEG-2 TS,

if a packet having a Random Access Indicator (RAI) equal to 1 includes a Program Clock Reference (PCR) value, one sample is defined from a first byte of the packet to a packet just before a next packet having an RAI equal to 1.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein in said storing a target MPEG-2 TS and said dividing the MPEG-2 TS,

if a packet having Random Access Indicator (RAI) equal to 1 does not include a Program Clock Reference (PCR) value, one sample is defined from a first byte of the packet to a packet just before a next packet having an RAI equal to 1 and having a PCR by predicting a time value based on the previous PCR value.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein in said storing a target MPEG-2 TS and said dividing the MPEG-2 TS,

if a packet having an RAI equal to 1 does not include a PCR value, a time value is predicted and obtained with reference to previous and next PCR values, the obtained time value is used as the time information, and one sample is defined from a first byte of a packet having RAI=1 to a previous packet of a next packet having an RAI equal to 1.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein one sample is defined from a first byte of a packet having an RAI equal to 1 to a previous packet of a next packet having an RAI equal to 1.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein time information described in the moov box is generated using a Presentation Time Stamp (PTS) of an MPEG-2 PES packet header obtained from an MPEG-2 TS stored in the mdat box.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein time information described in the moov box is generated using a Decoding Time Stamp of an MPEG-2 Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) packet header, which is obtained from an MPEG-2 TS stored in the mdat box.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the time information described in the moov box is generated using DTS and PTS of an MPEG-2 PES packet header obtained from an MPEG-2 TS stored in the mdat box.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein if a payload of the MPEG-TS includes an MPEG-4 Synchronization Layer (SL) packet, time information described in the moov box is generated using a Decoding Time Stamp of the MPEG-4 SL packet header.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein if a payload of the MPEG-2 TS includes an MPEG-4 SL packet, time information described in the moov box is generated using a Composition Time Stamp of the MPEG-4 SL packet header.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the PMT related information is directly described in the moov box.

12. The method of claim 12, wherein if a payload of the MPEG-2 TS includes an MPEG-4 SL packet, time information described in the moov box is generated using decoding time and composition time of the MPEG-4 SL packet header.

14. An apparatus for storing a Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG)-2 transport stream in an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) based media file formation, comprising:

a signal receiver for receiving an external signal and outputting an MPEG-2 transport stream (TS);

a signal processor for extracting time information, location information, size information, and Program Map Table (PMT) related information by a sample unit from the MPEG-2 TS outputted from the signal receiver; and

a file memory for storing the MPEG-2 TS from the signal receiver in an mdat box of the ISO-based media file format as a sample for random access, and describing the extracted time information, location information, size information, and PMT related information in an moov box of the ISO-based media file format.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein time information described in the moov box is generated using a Presentation Time Stamp (PTS) of an MPEG-2 PES packet header from the MPEG-2 TS stored in the mdat box.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein time information described in the moov box is generated using a Decoding Time Stamp (DTS) of an MPEG-2 PES packet header obtained from an MPEG-2 TS stored in the mdat box.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein if the payload of the MPEG-2 TS includes an MPEG-4 SL packet, the time information described in the moov box is generated using a decoding time of an MPEG-4 SL packet header.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein if the payload of the MPEG-2 TS includes an MPEG-4 SL packet, the time information described in the moov box is generated using a composition time or a decoding time of the MPEG-4 SL packet header.

19. A Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) terminal, comprising:

a signal receiver for receiving a DMB signal and outputting an MPEG-2 transport stream (TS);

a file memory for storing the MPEG-2 TS in an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) based media file format where the MPEG-2 TS is stored in an mdat box of the ISO-based media file format as a sample, and time information, location information, size information, and Program Map Table (PMT) related information of the MPEG-2 TS are stored by a sample unit in an moov box of the ISO-based media file formation;

an MPEG-2 TS demultiplexer for analyzing PMT in the received MPEG-2 TS;

an OD analyzer for extracting or analyzing OD information from the analyzed information;

an MPEG-2 PES depacketizer and an MPEG-4 SL depacketizer for analyzing a packet through the analyzed or extracted PMT/OD information;

an AV decoder for decoding the generated AV stream; and

an AV output unit for outputting the decoded AV stream,

wherein radon access playback for an MPEG-2 transport stream stored in the mdat box is controlled using information described in the moov box.

20. The DMB terminal of claim 19, wherein a location of the random access playback is selected by a user based on the time information.

21. A method for storing a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) in an International Organization of Standard (ISO) based media file format, comprising:

storing a target MPEG-2 TS to store in an mdat box of the ISO-based media file format; and

describing time information, location information, Program Map Table (PMT) related information, and Object Descriptor (OD) information in an moov box of the ISO-based media file format by a sample unit for randomly accessing the target MPEG-2 TS, where a boundary of the sample is identical to a boundary of the MPEG-2 TS.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the PMT related information and the OD related information are described in the moov box whenever the PMT related information and the OD related information are updated.

23. An apparatus for storing a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) in an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) based media file format, comprising:

a signal receiver for receiving an external signal and outputting an MPEG-2 TS;

a signal processor for extracting Program Map Table (PMT) related information and Object Descriptor (OD) related information from the MPEG-2 TS outputted from the signal receiver; and

a file memory for storing the outputted MPEG-2 TS from the signal receiver in an mdat box of the ISO-based media file format as a sample for random access, and describing time information, location information, Program Map Table (PMT) related information, and Object Descriptor (OD) related information of the extracted MPEG-2 TS from the signal processor in an moov box of the ISO-based media file format by a sample unit.