Producing equivalent content across encapsulators in a network environment

摘要

A method is provided in one example and includes receiving first synchronization information associated with a first encapsulated output, receiving second synchronization information associated with a second encapsulated output, and determining whether the first encapsulated output and the second encapsulated output are in synchronization based upon the first synchronization information and the second synchronization information. The method may further include, when the first encapsulated output and the second encapsulated output are determined to out of synchronization, generating corrected synchronization information, and sending the corrected synchronization information to an encapsulator generating at least one of the first encapsulated output and the second encapsulated output.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving first synchronization information associated with a first encapsulated output from a first encapsulator, wherein the first synchronization information includes at least one timestamp value of the first encapsulated output and wherein the first synchronization information further includes one or more a timestamp wrap count value representative of a number of times the timestamp value has wrapped around to an initial timestamp value within a timestamp range, a timestamp delta value representative of an amount of time that a timestamp has lumped backward in time, and a timestamp jump count value representative of a number of times of a discontinuous jump forward in time of a timestamp; receiving second synchronization information associated with a second encapsulated output from a second encapsulator; determining whether the first encapsulated output and the second encapsulated output are in synchronization within an acceptable threshold based, at least in part, on the first synchronization information and the second synchronization information; and responsive to the first encapsulated output and the second encapsulated output being determined to be out of synchronization:
generating corrected synchronization information by using one of the first synchronization information and the second synchronization information as the corrected synchronization information based upon which of the first synchronization information and the second synchronization information includes a greater timestamp value; andsending the corrected synchronization information to one of the first encapsulator and the second encapsulator.