Patent ID: 7280741

Claim:
Method for controlling the insertion of stuffing data into a bitstream to be recorded, wherein the data to be recorded are structured into first-format data packets that can have a variable length and to which time stamps are assigned, which first-format data packets are assigned to and packed into second-format data packets having a constant length, comprising the steps: determining the time of the time stamp of a first-format data packet received for the recording of a current second-format data packet; checking whether a predetermined time limit has elapsed between the time of said time stamp of said first first-format data packet and a time instant derived from an essentially periodic signal that is derived from the IEEE 1394 cycle synch interrupt pulse of an IEEE 1394 interface via which said bitstream to be recorded is received, wherein said predetermined time limit is related to said constant second-format data packet length; if said predetermined time limit has elapsed and said current second-format data packet is not yet appropriately filled with said first first-format data packet or additional subsequently received first-format data packets or at least a time stamp of one following first-format data packet, inserting stuffing data into the remainder of the current second-format data packet.