Abstract: A system and methods are provided for maintaining a timing relationship among data packets associated with a single program of a multiple program transport stream. Select data relating to a single multimedia program is selected from the multiple program transport stream. Timestamps, used to represent the time on a system time clock when particular packets are received, are attached to data packets from the single program. The time-stamped packets are stored in memory. When accessed back from memory, the timestamps are used to determine when to present the data of the packets. The data can then be used to construct a transport stream made up of only the data related to the selected single program.