Patent ID: 9071816
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of storing a substantially real time serial stream of information signals representing information arranged in separate, consecutive data packets of digital format on a disc like record carrier, the disc like record carrier having units of recording where each unit has a predetermined size larger than a size of a data packet of the data packets, the method comprising acts of: receiving the serial stream of information signals; detecting the data packets in the serial stream of information signals; establishing an application packet arrival time stamp (APAT) corresponding to a time of arrival of the data packets with respect to a Reference Time Base Counter, the application packet arrival time stamp (APAT) comprising several bits, each bit of the several bits corresponding to a predetermined time interval; selecting bits from the application packet arrival time stamp (APAT) for deriving an application time stamp (TM_APP); collecting a data packet and the related application time stamp (TM_APP) in a source packet, collecting multiple source packets in a stream pack (S_PCK) with a pack header, a size of the stream pack (S_PCK) corresponding to the predetermined size of the unit of recording of the disc like record carrier; storing source packet retrieval information in the stream pack (S-PCK); storing in the pack header information with respect to the application time stamp (TM_APP) for enabling retrieving a reference time base; and storing the stream packs (S_PCK) on the disc like record carrier.