MCTECH - Help on Transport Stream

kkolbo wrote on 7/30/2002, 4:53 AM

I hope MCTECH or someone else can help here. I have a piece of playback equipment, a Vidstar, that needs an MPEG-2 Transport Stream. When I read the specs it appears that the main difference is in timestamping. In the MC/SF MPEG-2 encoder there are settings to timestamp every frame. Will that in effect give me a transport stream?

I bet it isn't that simple, but hey why not ask the experts? Can the encoder be set up so that the output is a valid transport stream? So far I have only found hardware encoders that can deliver a valid transport stream.

K

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owlsroost wrote on 7/30/2002, 8:14 AM

The Womble 'MPEG2VCR' editor will handle/convert to/from transport streams, program streams, elementary streams - download from http://www.womble.com/purchase.htm (follow the 'purchase' links to get to the downloads - they work as trial versions too).

Transport streams are quite different in structure to program streams - it's a lot more than just the timestamps.

Tony

kkolbo wrote on 7/30/2002, 9:21 AM

unfortunately the demo is only MPEG1. :) I am still convinced that even with the different packet size etc that MC/SF may have left enough settings visible to set it up for transport stream. Did you MC? I may be wrong though. I have been looking at stream converters and they are pricey.

K