Recently, I have got interested in mpeg-2 standard. And it suddenly occurred to me that i want to make a mpeg-2 decoder. I'm already studying mpeg system part that covers stream-packaging mechanism like transport stream or program stream. But I also want to know the structures of video and audio elementary stream. I actually mean to tell you that i really want to make my own mpeg-2 decoder.
Although there's a lot of great books regarding mpeg-2 system part, I couldn't find any of useful books that covers the structures of elementary streams and how you can process them properly. All i found was a book that explains how the video is encoded and all kind of encoding-technology stuff.
Would you guys suggest me a useful book to which i can actually refer when i'm processing a mpeg-2 file? hope you guys are willing to do it.
Please checkout: http://www.fh-friedberg.de/fachbereiche/e2/telekom-labor/zinke/mk/mpeg2beg/beginnzi.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=22990
The 3rd link is the link to the MPEG-2 standard, this is the bible for MPEG-2 codec development. That will give you all the information needed to process a MPEG-2 file.