Multiprotocol Encapsulation

The Multi-Protocol Encapsulation ( MPE) is an IP based protocol at the data link layer for MPEG-2 streams for Digital Video Broadcasting. It was published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute as EN 301 192.

Construction

An MPE packet has a maximum length of 4096 bytes, and is composed of a header section, the data ( payload section ) and the trailer section, in which the information is embedded for error detection. For use comes to a Reed -Solomon code RS ( 255.191, t = 32).