Patent ID: 6449352
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A decoding method for decoding multiplexed data, said data comprising at least one program comprising at least image, sound, and other digital data, said method comprising the steps of:receiving a first program map table (PMT) comprising information of a first program currently being decoded and a second program map table (PMT) comprising information of a second program not currently being decoded, said first and second program map table (PMT) having program identification data (PID) of image and sound data of the first program and the second program, respectively; storing the first and second program map table (PMT) in a buffer memory; feeding a TS packet comprising of at least one of image, sound, and other digital data of the first program to be decoded; and decoding and outputting said image, sound or other digital data.