Knowledge Gateway
Unlock your learning potential with industry insights and standards that matter. Share your email to begin.
Unlock your learning potential with industry insights and standards that matter. Share your email to begin.
Status : Active
Standard Type : Main
Document No : ISO/IEC 11172-1:1993
Document Year : 1993
Pages : 53
Edition : 1.0
Specifies the system layer of the coding. Was developed principally to support the combination of the video and audio coding methods defined in ISO/IEC 11172-2 and ISO/IEC 11172-3. The system layer supports the following basic functions: the synchronization of multiple compressed streams on playback, the interleaving of multiple compressed streams into a single stream, the initializiation of buffering for playback start up, continuous buffer management, and time identification.