Patent ID: 8582663

Claim:
Method of statistical interleaving of at least two digital video sequences each comprising a plurality of coded pictures to be reproduced by a decoder, wherein the two digital video sequences form one video stream, the method comprising: statistical multiplexing a first digital video sequence with a second digital video sequence, wherein the pictures of the second digital video sequence are included in advance in the video stream and are associated with timing information such that a receiver will not decode and reproduce the pictures of the second digital video sequence; composing the at least two digital video sequences into the video stream in an interleaved manner in correspondence with a result of the statistical multiplexing; and subsequently including a sequence of dummy timing pictures into the video stream, which the dummy timing pictures are inter-predicted from one or more pictures of the second video sequence coded in advance in said video stream, wherein the dummy timing pictures are coded by omitting any prediction error data; whereby decoding the dummy timing pictures results in copies of decoded pictures corresponding to the one or more pictures of the second sequence included in the video stream in advance.