Trick play signal generation for a digital video recorder

摘要

The invention concerns a method for generating trickmode information for a digital video stream to be recorded in a digital video system. The method comprises the steps of: analyzing the structure of said video stream and deriving a plurality of descriptors of objects of the stream; writing said stream to a recording medium; inserting, into the object descriptors, information describing the address of the objects on the recording medium. Applicable in a digital television system in which receivers are fitted with recording means.