A bit stream formed from a sequence of transport packets, including transport packets containing compressed program data for each of one or more programs and, for {HEAD ~ each program}, program clock reference time stamps, to which decoding and presentation of {TAIL ~ said program} is synchronized, said bit stream being produced by the steps of: 
A bit stream formed from a sequence of transport packets , including transport packets containing compressed program data for each of one or more programs and , for { HEAD ~ each program } , program clock reference time stamps , to which decoding and presentation of { TAIL ~ said program } is synchronized , said bit stream being produced by the steps of :
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