Patent ID: 7715482

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) receiving at a digital video input of a video signal processing system, digital video information from an external digital video source, the digital video information lacking MPEG time stamps or equivalents thereof; (b) determining, using a time control device, that a new frame of the digital video information has been received; (c) generating, using the time control device, an MPEG artificial time stamp in response to the determining step, the MPEG artificial time stamp being set to a current local time; (d) associating, using a data transport device, the MPEG artificial time stamp with the digital video information to generate pseudo MPEG information from the digital video information, wherein the pseudo MPEG information comprises non-MPEG digital video information having MPEG artificial time stamps for decoding the non-MPEG digital video information; and (e) processing, using an MPEG signal processor, the pseudo MPEG information as MPEG information.