Sun Microsystems MEDIACENTER 2.1 - Manual (Page 25)

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Preparing and Loading Content
This chapter specifies what video content should consist of and how it should be
formatted, as required by the Sun MediaCenter software. It also provides guidelines
for content loading.
This chapter does not tell you how to encode content. The Sun MediaCenter server
has successfully stored and delivered content encoded on a variety of different
encoders, from a number of different vendors.
2.1 General MPEG Encoding Requirements
This section defines general MPEG encoding requirements. A subsequent section
defines additional constraints to the general requirements.
To play correctly on the Sun MediaCenter server, a bit stream must meet all of the
following requirements:
■ All bit streams in a content package must be encoded as either (1) MPEG-2
Transport Streams or Program Streams, conforming to the ISO/IEC 13818-1
standard, or (2) MPEG-1 System Streams, conforming to the ISO/IEC 11172-1
standard.
General MPEG Encoding Requirements page 2-1
MPEG Encoding Requirements for Trick Play page 2-2
Splice Points page 2-3
Content Loading page 2-5
References page 2-7