transport stream [EtherGuide Glossary]

A transport stream is an electronic construct, defined in the MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818) where video, audio and data elementary streams are packetized into 188-byte packets, are combined with metadata that describes the streams.

For distribution to end-users, transport streams are encoded using ATSC, DVB or ARIB technologies for distribution via terrestrial, cable or satellite networks.

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