Patent ID: 9729906
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: providing a program as a multiplexed plurality of streams (MPOS), the MPOS comprising a first video stream coded according to a first video specification and a second video stream coded according to a second video specification, the second video stream complementary to the first video stream, wherein the first video stream comprises a first representation of the program and a combination of the first video stream and second video stream comprises a second representation of the program; providing association information for the program, the association information providing a plurality of stream associations, wherein each respective stream association comprises a stream type and a respectively corresponding identifier for packets of the stream in the MPOS (IFPOTSITM), wherein the stream type of a first stream association and a second stream association of the plurality of stream associations correspond to video data, wherein a first stream type value of the stream type for the first stream association is different than a second stream type value of the stream type for the second stream association, wherein the stream type of the first stream association has a first unique packet identifier (PID) and the stream type of the second stream association has a second unique PID, wherein the IFPOTSITMs for the first stream association and the second stream association are different, wherein the first stream type value identifies the first video specification used to encode the first video stream, and wherein the second stream type value identifies both the first video stream which is complementary to the second video stream and the second video specification used to encode the second video stream; and compressing a first type of picture corresponding to the second video stream based on referencing decompressed pictures from the second video stream and a second type of picture corresponding to the second video stream based on referencing decompressed pictures from the first video stream.