Sun Microsystems 2.1 ATM Encapsulation, MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet Encapsulation, Control

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controlled by the Content Manager (CM). Utilities that use the CM are described in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6. The CM server and client APIs are described in the Sun MediaCenter Server Programmer’s Guide.

FIGURE 7-1illustrates the separation of data and control flows with respect to the Sun MediaCenter server.

Sun MediaCenter

Server

Media Stream Manager

Control

Content Manager

Content

ATM/LAN

Data

FIGURE 7-1Separation of Data, Content Management, and Control

The server data output mechanism supports two types of network data links: SunATM and SunFastEthernet (100BaseT). The data formats and addressing for each type of link is described in the following sections.

7.2ATM Encapsulation

This subsection describes the different ways the ATM data packets that are output from the server can be encapsulated.

7.2.1MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet Encapsulation

The encapsulation for MPEG-2 Transport Streams is the default specification of the standard public document from ATM Forum document 95-0012R5 (see reference [1] on page 7-9), titled Service Aspects and Applications. In this document, the chapter “Network Adaptation” describes the required default ATM packet for video to be made up of two MPEG Transport packets encapsulated in a single ATM AAL-5 packet. Each MPEG-2 Transport packet is 188 bytes long.

7-2Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997

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Sun Microsystems 2.1 ATM Encapsulation, MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet Encapsulation, Sun MediaCenter Server, Control