METHOD OF CONVERTING A PACKETIZED STREAM OF INFORMATION SIGNALS INTO A STREAM OF INFORMATION SIGNALS WITH TIME STAMPS AND VICE VERSA

摘要

A method of and an apparatus for converting a packetized stream of information signals representing information arranged in separate, consecutive data packets of digital format, into a stream of information signals with time stamps, includes the feature that after establishing time stamps related to a time of arrival of a data packet, the time stamps of several data packets are grouped into a time stamp packet wherein the size of the time stamp packet is equal to the size of a data unit.