Patent ID: 8589999

Claim:
A media processing unit, the media processing unit comprising: an input interface, configured to receive a second media stream, wherein the second media stream comprises first access units each comprising a first plurality of multiple contiguous frames and second access units each comprising a second plurality of multiple contiguous frames; wherein packet headers for the second access units lacks decoding parameters sufficient for full decoding of the second access units; wherein each first access unit comprises decoding parameters included in associated packet headers required for full decoding of at least one first access unit and of at least one second access unit; a media-processor, configured to select a selected access unit of the second media stream, and to process the second media stream to provide a processed second media stream by writing into the selected access unit decoding parameters that are responsive to decoding parameters of a previous first access unit; and a transmitter, configured to transmit the processed second media stream to a splicer.