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RTP Payload Format for Transport of MPEG-4 Elementary Streams
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Network Working Group J. van der Meer
Request for Comments: 3640 Philips Electronics
Category: Standards Track D. Mackie
Apple Computer
V. Swaminathan
Sun Microsystems Inc.
D. Singer
Apple Computer
P. Gentric
Philips Electronics
November 2003
RTP Payload Format for Transport of MPEG-4 Elementary Streams
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29
WG11) is a working group in ISO that produced the MPEG-4 standard.
MPEG defines tools to compress content such as audio-visual
information into elementary streams. This specification defines a
simple, but generic RTP payload format for transport of any non-
multiplexed MPEG-4 elementary stream.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Carriage of MPEG-4 Elementary Streams Over RTP . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Signaling by MIME Format Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. MPEG Access Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. Concatenation of Access Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4. Fragmentation of Access Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.5. Interleaving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.6. Time Stamp Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.7. State Indication of MPEG-4 System Streams . . . . . . . 8
2.8. Random Access Indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
van der Meer, et al. Standards Track