Packetized Elementary Stream Headers
Depending on the Stream ID, a Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) header may contain various components.The header
byte 0 | byte 1 | byte 2 | byte 3 | byte 4 | byte 5 |
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0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 Start code | Stream ID | PES packet length |
Stream ID | Stream type | extension present? |
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1011 1101 0xBD | Private stream 1 (non MPEG audio, subpictures) | Yes |
1011 1110 0xBE | Padding stream | No |
1011 1111 0xBF | Private stream 2 (navigation data) | No |
110x xxxx 0xC0 - 0xDF | MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 audio stream number x xxxx note: DVD allows only 8 audio streams | Yes |
1110 xxxx 0xE0 - 0xEF | MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video stream number xxxx note: DVD allows only 1 video stream | Yes |
The extension
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7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
10 | PES scrambling control | PES priority | data alignment indicator | copyright | original or copy | PTS DTS flags | ESCR flag | ES rate flag | DSM trick mode flag | additional copy info flag | PES CRC flag | PES extension flag | PES header data length |
PES scrambling control -- 00 = not scrambled, others are user defined.
PES priority -- provides 2 priority levels, 0 and 1.
data alignment indicator -- if set to 1 indicates that the PES packet header is immediately followed by the video start code or audio syncword.
copyright -- 1 = packet contains copyrighted material.
original or copy -- 1 = original, 0 = copy.
PTS DTS flags -- Presentation Time Stamp / Decode Time Stamp. 00 = no PTS or DTS data present, 01 is forbidden.
if set to 10 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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0010 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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0011 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
| 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0001 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
ESCR -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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00 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
ES rate -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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1 |
| 1 |
DSM trick mode - not used by DVD
additional copy info -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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PES CRC flag -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
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PES extension flag -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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| 111 |
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PES private data flag -- if set to 1 16 bytes of user defined data is appended to the header data field.
pack header field flag -- if set to 1 the 8-bit pack field length value is appended to the header data field.
program packet sequence counter flag -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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1 |
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P-STD buffer flag -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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01 |
0 = 128 bytes 1 = 1024 bytes |
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PES extension flag 2 -- if set to 1 the following data is appended to the header data field:
7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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1 |
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The rest of the packet
Following all the extension data are optional stuffing bytes (0xFF), which are included in the header data length, and then the payload.In the case of private streams the first byte of the payload is the sub-stream number.