MTS400 Series MPEG Analysis Tools

Features & Benefits

• Verifies Conformance of the PES Header Contents to the MPEG, DVB, and ATSC Standards
• Analyze PES Header Contents
• Compare Actual Presentation and Decode Time Stamps (PTS/DTS) Values with Calculated Values
• Detects Encoder Drift Against Real-time Errors
• Displays the Most Important Elementary Stream Field Values for a Selected Access Unit

Characteristics

Applications

When developing professional and consumer equipment, particularly encoders and set-top boxes, the characteristics of the test streams being either generated or used as stimulus need to be ascertained. The header associated with each PES packet is of particular interest, as it contains the decode and presentation time stamps (DTS and PTS) for the contained Elementary Stream. Errors in these time stamps may cause resets or picture freeze problems at the receiver in extreme cases. They are more typically the cause of lip sync problems where the time stamps of associated video and audio streams are not synchronized.

Supported CODECs

• MPEG-2 Video
• MPEG-2 Audio
• MPEG-2 AAC Audio
• MPEG-4 AAC Audio
• AC-3 Audio

Standalone Software System Requirements (MTS4SA)

• PC with Genuine Intel Pentium class 1.2 GHz processor
• Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
• Windows 2000 or Windows XP Operating System
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or above
• 256 MB of RAM
• 50 MB of available hard disk space for the application and documentation
• SVGA (800 × 600) resolution video adapter and monitor (XVGA (1024 × 768) or higher resolution recommended)
• CD-ROM or DVD drive
• Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Ordering Information

PES Analyzer

This application is available on MTS400 Series analyzer instruments, as MTS4SA standalone software, and on MTX/RTX Series generator instruments.

Additional Information

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