METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUSES FOR TRANSFERRING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SIGNALS BETWEEN SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS NETWORKS AND FOR MINIMIZING DELAY TIME IN SUCH NETWORKS

摘要

The present invention refers to a method and/or system for transferring/receiving audio and/or video signals fulfilling the requirement to bridge synchronous and asynchronous networks and minimizing delay time over such networks characterised by the steps of: analysing the active network interface or verifies which network interface is receiving and/or sending data; taking a synchronous-clock signal (multiplexed signal) from the network and providing it to a bitstream analyser (3); analysing the format of the multiplexed signal obtained from another audio codec (e.g. Inverse Multiplexing); analysing the audio format (e.g. MPEG 1 Layer 3 128 kBit/s stereo); adapting the encoded signal to the IP (Internet Protocol) datagrams as required by the network interface and by the network itself in terms of protocols, packet size, etc. and resulting in a datagram signal; taking the datagram signal and putting it in the IP (Internet Protocol) network (e.g. 100 Mbit/s Ethernet).