Packetized Elementary Stream (PES)

• Result of the packetization process

• The payload is the data bytes taken sequentially from the original elementary stream

• No specific format for forming the PES packet

  • Entire video frame in one PES packet (but need variable size frames)
  • Fixed size packets

• PES headers distinguish PES packets of various streams and also contain timestamp information

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