[MPlayer-dev-eng] DVB-TS and ATSC-TS Differences

Nico nsabbi at tiscali.it
Thu Jan 29 21:17:14 CET 2004


Greg Herlein wrote:

>It's come to light in my work on transport streams this week that
>DVB-formatted streams (prevalent in Europe and on many satellites
>here in the US) have subtle differences from ATSC-formatted
>streams (prevalent here in the US for digital broadcasting,
>especially the free to air terrestial).
>
>Specifically, the mapping of AC3 audio is done in 'PES private
>streams' in DVB where it's has a mandated stream type of 0x06.
>In ATSC it has to be set to a stream type of 0x81 and is a normal
>audio PES stream.
>
>Reference:
>
>http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_52a.pdf
>(see pages 118-127)
>
>There must be other differences as well.  Does anyone know of a
>definitive paper or document that details all these?  If not, is
>anyone willing to help produce such a document?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Greg
>
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I didn't read it all, and I don't remember the details, but the format 
for SI tables PSIP is different from DVB-PSI.
on www.esti.org you can find the standard for DVB-PSI.




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