LOCAL NETWORK AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA

摘要

The invention relates to a local network with several subscribers that are interconnected by an optical data line (1) for transmitting audio and/or video data and that are connected to a ring network by control data. At least one subscriber of the local network is configured as a data source (2) for compressed audio and video data, for example as a DVD player. At least one subscriber represents a data think (3) for audio data and at least one subscriber (4) represents a data think for transmitted video data. A data think (5) of the local network comprises a designated bit stream decoder (6) for decoding the incoming compressed audio and video data, a separating stage (7) for separating the jointly transmitted audio data from the video data and a control unit, which controls the transmission of the decoded, separate data to the output units (9, 11). The decoded, separate audio data and/or the video data are transmitted to their data thinks (4, 3) by the optical data line (1) and to the output units (9, 11) that are allocated to said data thinks. The inventive configuration or a local network is very economical and makes very efficient use of the transmission capacity of a network.