MPEG-4 Systems: Elementary stream management

C Herpel, A Eleftheriadis
2000 Signal processing. Image communication  
We describe the elementary stream management (ESM) facilities provided by MPEG-4 Systems. Within the extensive set of tools de"ned by MPEG-4, the ESM tools play a critical role in joining several building blocks together. ESM provides a dual to the scene description language (BIFS) in that it links the streaming resources of a presentation to the scene. We also describe the synchronization functionality as well as the system decoder model that de"nes the timing behavior and bu!er resource
more » ... ment of MPEG-4 receivers. The paper concludes with considerations on data packaging in underlying delivery layer protocols and a description of the MPEG-4 content access procedure.
doi:10.1016/s0923-5965(99)00051-x fatcat:cyjkdlooxfajlo6xvzrsgyea4u