Patent ID: 7916995

Claim:
A method for recording digitized video, audio and additional system data, wherein a defined video frame rate or field rate and a defined audio sample rate are used, including the steps of receiving constant length digital data including camera data and constant length timecode data; generating a first KLV encoded packet containing a full frame or field of the digitized video data, wherein the first packet has predetermined constant size; generating a second KLV encoded packet containing digitized audio data substantially corresponding, within a range of two audio samples, to said digitized video data of the first packet, wherein the digitized audio data is an integer number of audio samples that is determined by the video frame rate or field rate and the audio sample rate, and wherein said integer number of audio samples varies in successive second KLV encoded packets according to a predefined scheme; determining the difference between said amount of data of the second KLV encoded packet and a predefined maximum amount of data; generating a third KLV encoded packet containing at least the timecode data and default data, wherein the amount of the default data is said difference plus a non-negative integer constant; and recording an application packet containing at least the first, second and third KLV encoded packets.