Packetized Elementary Stream

File Format
Name	Packetized Elementary Stream
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Video MPEG Packetized Elementary Stream
PRONOM	fmt/640

A Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) is the basic format by which streams of audio or video, and other content such as subtitles, are stored within MPEG-2 data. A DVD has its content in a whole series of these. The VobSub program grabs the PES packets on a DVD that represent subtitles.

Links

• Wikipedia article
• PES header info
• More PES info