System, Program and Transport streams

[alexVS]

When encoding in Canopus Procoder, TMpegEnc or other, the output can be different:

Elementary (Video and audio not muxed)
System, Program and Transport streams (Video and audio muxed). What's the difference between last 3?

[Guest]

For system streams, see here:

http://neuron2.net/library/mpeg1/MPGSYS.DOC

For program and transport streams, see here:

http://neuron2.net/library/mpeg2/iso13818-1.pdf

Basically:

System stream: contains an MPEG1 program ("program" is an associated set of elementary streams)
Program stream: contains an MPEG2 program
Transport stream: contains multiple MPEG2 programs