INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION AND RENDERING OF MULTIPLE ENCODED VIDEO STREAMS

摘要

A system and method for the simultaneous transmission and rendition of multiple digital video streams in an interactive television application are disclosed. Simultaneous transmission and rendition of multiple encoded digit al video signal streams in an interactive television application generally comprises modifying at least one of the multiple encoded video streams broadcast from a broadcast center for repositioning the at least one of the multiple encoded video streams for display (362), interleaving the multiple encoded video streams having the at least one modified encoded video stream into a single composite interleaved video stream (364), and outputting the single composite video stream. The method may further comprise receiving the multiple encoded video streams from a broadcast center. Each of the multiple encoded video streams is preferably encoded using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 compressi on technology.