Patent ID: 8259735

Claim:
A method of media transmission, comprising: providing at least one variable bit rate (VBR) video stream; multiplexing the at least one VBR video stream together with auxiliary data related to the at least one VBR video stream, in a constant bit rate (CBR) stream; transmitting the CBR stream to a first receiving unit, which is adapted to discard the auxiliary data as padding and use the at least one VBR stream; and transmitting the CBR stream to a second receiving unit, which is adapted to extract the same auxiliary data and use it in further handling of the at least one VBR stream, wherein the second receiving unit receives the VBR stream, generates at least one modified VBR stream from the VBR stream and auxiliary data in the CBR stream, and multiplexes the at least one modified VBR stream into a further CBR stream with at least some of the auxiliary data from the VBR stream.