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User Manual MTS300 MPEG Test System Program Stream Analyzer 071-0662-00 This document applies to MPEG Test System version 5.0 firmware and above. www.tektronix.com Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Commercial Computer Software – Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52.227-19, as applicable. Tektronix products are covered by U.S. and foreign patents, issued and pending. Information in this publication supercedes that in all previously published material. Specifications and price change privileges reserved.
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WARRANTY Tektronix warrants that the media on which this software product is furnished and the encoding of the programs on the media will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three (3) months from the date of shipment.
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Table of Contents MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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PES packet level, extract and save all or part of program and system streams, and analyze streams for coherence to the MPEG standards. The MPEG Program Stream Analyzer is part of the MTS300 suite of hardware and software components used to create, generate, acquire, and analyze MPEG and DVB transport and program streams and can be used by itself or as an integral part of the MPEG test system.
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Preface Contacting Tektronix Product For questions about using Tektronix measurement products, call Support toll free in North America: 1-800-833-9200 6:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pacific time Or contact us by e-mail: tm_app_supp@tek.com For product support outside of North America, contact your local Tektronix distributor or sales office.
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Getting Started Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Syntactic analysis Consistency analysis (coherence between all components of the stream) System clock reference (SCR) analysis Presentation/Decoding time stamp (PTS/DTS) analysis 1–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
To enable the software you have purchased, use the procedure for entering the general password described in the MTS300 Series Software Only Installation Instructions, Tektronix part number 075-0630-XX.
Menu Selections provides a table that summarizes the menu selections. 2–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Title bar. The title bar displays the application name and application icon. The window control buttons are standard window controls and allow you to minimize, maximize, and close the application window. 2–2 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Next error Displays the next item that has an error in the program stream file. 2–3 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
The first bit of the program stream is zero. 2–4 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
“?” on top of them indicate stream elements that are found in the bitstream, yet are not referenced in the program stream map (ghost elements). 2–5 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Elementary Stream Analyzer installed on your system. DATA Save Data Stream dialog box (page 2–16) End Code message Code window 2–6 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
PES packet elements respectively). File name View type Item number Position Field Field length or Value rectangle position indicator rectangle 2–7 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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ISO/IEC 11172-1 and ISO/IEC 13818-1. You can move this window by clicking and dragging the title bar. Dismiss the window by clicking anywhere outside of it in the application window. 2–8 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Double-click a value rectangle to display a pop-up message window for the value, as shown in the following illustration. 2–9 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
You can also display binary and hexadecimal views of many program stream elements by double-clicking the three dimensional data packet fields in some of the interpreted views. 2–10 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
2. Use standard Windows techniques to select the drive and directory that contains the file you want to open. 2–11 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
PES interpreted view. When this view is active, the analyzer extracts the PES packets you indicate and saves files using the PES stream file name extension (.pes). 2–12 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Windows techniques, indicate the file in which to save the extracted data. Pack header data saved using this procedure are saved using the pack stream file name extension (.pck). 2–13 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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ID text box. The item number displayed in the active interpreted view is displayed in the From and To text boxes. 2–14 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Use .psd for program stream directory files. Use .psm for program stream map files. Use .pes for packetized elementary stream files. 4. Select OK. 2–15 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Save as dialog box. The default extension for all elementary streams saved using this procedure is .es. 2–16 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Quitting the MPEG To quit the MPEG Program Stream Analyzer, select Exit from the File menu. Program Stream Analyzer 2–17 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
See page 3–4. PS Directory Displays the program stream directory interpreted view for the active program stream. See page 3–5. 2–18 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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(The Binary and Hexadecimal view windows are not affected by the font selection.) 2–19 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Displays the Windows Help contents. About MPEG Audio Stream Displays the software version number and copyright Analyzer information about the MPEG Program Stream Analyzer. 2–20 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Furthermore, system streams do not have program stream map and program stream directory PES packet elements. 3–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Use the command buttons on the Edit toolbar (or the selections from the Edit menu) to navigate through the pack header items. 3–2 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Use the command buttons on the Edit toolbar (or the selections from the Edit menu) to navigate through the PES Packet items. 3–3 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Edit toolbar. The analyzer will check the program stream map syntax for the active stream, including CRC values, and display the next item with an error. 3–4 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Use the command buttons on the Edit toolbar (or the selections from the Edit menu) to navigate through the program stream directory items. 3–5 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
In order to view multiple, unique items of program stream elements, add another interpreted view window by selecting the appropriate icon from the Hierarchic view. 3–6 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Right-click the PS or Pack icon, and then select Packets Map from the submenu. From the Hierarchic view, select Characteristics from the Analysis menu, and then select Packs/Packets Map from the submenu. 3–7 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
SCR clock icons to the black line, which represents time. SCR clocks without errors are indicated using black arrows. 3–8 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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SCR clocks. To access this display, click the Add View button while the SCR graphical display is active, and then select SCR Values from the submenu. 3–9 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
1. From the Hierarchic view, select Temporal from the Analysis menu. 2. Select PTS/DTS from the submenu. NOTE. You cannot perform PTS/DTS analyses on data elementary streams. 3–10 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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PTS/DTS Values view, which is described in the next section beginning on page 3–13. 3–11 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Access Unit icons can represent multiple access units. Picture type and sequence information is displayed only for video elementary streams. 3–12 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Use the Next Item command button to display successive PTS/DTS items, or use the Go to command button to select a specific item. 3–13 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
After the analysis is complete, the following message window is displayed listing the syntactic errors found in the file. Errors are listed by MPEG element, item number, field name, and error. 3–14 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
When you perform a consistency analysis on a program or system stream, the analyzer creates a text file of the resulting errors (see Messages Output on page 3–20). 3–15 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Enter the number of the video or audio elementary stream you want to analyze in the text box. 3–16 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
(See Automatic Analyses on page 3–19 for information about how to specify which analyses are performed when you select Automatic from the Analysis menu.) 3–17 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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NOTE. To generate the error log file, you need to set the Messages Output in file option in the Messages Output dialog box each time you start an MPEG Program Stream Analyzer session. See page 3–20. 3–18 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
2. Select any combination of analyses from the dialog box. Until you change these settings, the selected analyses will be performed every time you select Automatic from the Analysis menu. 3–19 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Output in File check box is cleared. You need to select this option each time you begin an MPEG Program Stream Analyzer session in order to automatically generate error log files. 3–20 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Hierarchic view windows Interpreted view windows SCR and PTS/DTS Graphic view windows 3–21 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
*.acf by default. Set default configuration. Use this menu selection to revert the current options settings to the default settings. 3–22 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Common view window elements, 2–4 Configuration, read, save, and set default, 3–22 Consistency, analysis procedure, 3–15 Contacting Tektronix, vi CRC, in PSM interpreted view, 3–4 Index–1 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Number of items, edit toolbar command button, 2–3 in interpreted views, 2–9 interpreted views, 3–14 PTS/DTS message windows, 3–10 SCR message windows, 3–9 Index–2 MTS300 Series Program Stream Analyzer Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Windows view, 3–8 automatic analyses, 3–18 common elements, 2–4 error message, 3–14 Hierarchic view, 2–5 Tektronix MPEG Test System, v, 1–2 Interpreted view, 2–7 Temporal analyses, 3–16 Three dimensional rectangles, interpreted views, 2–10 Tile, menu selection, 2–20 Title bar, 2–2 X, symbol, 2–5...
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