Sun Microsystems 2.1 manual Preparing and Loading Content, General MPEG Encoding Requirements

C H A P T E R 2

Preparing and Loading Content

General MPEG Encoding Requirements	page 2-1
MPEG Encoding Requirements for Trick Play	page 2-2
Splice Points	page 2-3
Content Loading	page 2-5
References	page 2-7

This chapter specifies what video content should consist of and how it should be formatted, as required by the Sun MediaCenter software. It also provides guidelines for content loading.

This chapter does not tell you how to encode content. The Sun MediaCenter server has successfully stored and delivered content encoded on a variety of different encoders, from a number of different vendors.

2.1General MPEG Encoding Requirements

This section defines general MPEG encoding requirements. A subsequent section defines additional constraints to the general requirements.

To play correctly on the Sun MediaCenter server, a bit stream must meet all of the following requirements:

■All bit streams in a content package must be encoded as either (1) MPEG-2 Transport Streams or Program Streams, conforming to the ISO/IEC 13818-1 standard, or (2) MPEG-1 System Streams, conforming to the ISO/IEC 11172-1 standard.

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