METHOD OF CONVERTING A STREAM OF DATABITS OF A BINARY INFORMATION SIGNAL INTO A STREAM OF DATABITS OF A CONSTRAINED BINARY CHANNEL SIGNAL, DEVICE FOR ENCODING, SIGNAL COMPRISING A STREAM OF DATABITS OF A CONSTRAINED BINARY CHANNEL SIGNAL, RECORD CARRIER AND DEVICE FOR DECODING

摘要

The invention relates to a method for converting binary information into a constrained binary channel signal. The binary information is converted according to a channel code C1 and a channel code C1 into m1-bit channel words, the concatenated channel words obeying the run length constraints of the binary channel signal. The channel words are selected from sets of channel words, each set comprising only channel words having specific begin parts. The invention relates to a device for encoding, a signal comprising a stream of data bits of a constrained binary channel signal, a record carrier and a device for decoding.