MPEG Headers Quick Reference This is a quick reference to the various headers and streams found in MPEG/DVD. For a complete description you should get a copy of ISO/IEC 13818. This is an incomplete work-in-progress The header Every stream or table begins with a 32-bit start code, codes 00 through B8 are video stream start codes (fully defined in 13818-2), and codes B9-FF are stream-id's byte 0byte