Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Abbreviations and symbols
4 Receiver capabilities
4.1 Frequency spectrum
4.2 Conditional access
4.3 Return path
4.4 Navigator (SI)
4.5 Auto installation
4.6 Teletext carried in digital streams
4.7 Analogue recording/copy management
4.8 Services
4.9 Future versions of this specification
5 Video system characteristics
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Essential requirements
5.3 Constraints and extensions
5.3.1 Support for rapid channel acquisition
5.3.2 Picture types
5.3.3 ISO/IEC 11172-2 compatibility
5.3.4 User data
5.3.5 Video alignment
6 Video display formatting
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Video format
6.2.1 Requirements for DVB compliance
6.3 Recommendations for signalling in the video
stream
6.3.1 Sequence header
6.3.2 Sequence display extension
6.3.3 Constraints on the use of the picture
display extension
6.3.4 Format switching
6.4 Video format signalling extensions
6.4.1 MPEG signalling
6.4.2 DVB signalling
6.4.3 Active format description
6.5 Recommendations for ISO/IEC 13818-1 signalling
6.6 Alignment of video and graphics
6.6.1 Video with graphics
6.6.2 Uncertainty of position of graphics over
video
7 Audio system characteristics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Essential requirements
7.2.1 Scope of requirements
7.2.2 Synchronisation
7.2.3 Decoding requirements
7.3 Constraints and extensions
7.3.1 Surround sound
7.4 Audio description
7.4.1 Background (informative)
7.4.2 Receiver implementation minima
7.4.3 Signalling
7.4.4 Constraints on audio description stream
coding
7.4.5 Audio only services
7.5 Audio only services
7.6 PSI signalling
8 Multiplex and transport stream characteristics
8.1 Scope
8.2 Essential requirements
8.2.1 Multiplexing
8.2.2 Demultiplexing
8.3 Constraints and extensions
8.3.1 Multicomponent programs
9 Service and program specific information
9.1 Introduction
9.1.1 General requirements
9.1.2 General receiver requirements
9.1.3 General broadcaster requirements
9.1.4 Notation
9.2 SI & PSI Specification
9.2.1 Summary
9.2.2 Program association table
9.2.3 Program map table
9.2.4 Conditional access table
9.2.5 Network information table
9.2.6 Bouquet association table
9.2.7 Service description table
9.2.8 Event information table
9.2.9 Time and data table and time offset table
9.2.10 Running status table
9.2.11 Private data
9.3 Receiver functions
9.3.1 Information typically available to the user
9.3.2 Service change
9.3.3 Parental control
9.3.4 Receiver behaviour when a service stops
9.4 Establishing and maintaining the network connection
9.4.1 Use of SI identifiers
9.4.2 Auto installation
9.4.3 Network evolution
9.4.4 Logical channel numbers (LCN)
9.4.5 Recommendation for robust SI acquisition
9.5 User interface
9.5.1 Presentation of text
9.5.2 Information presentation
9.5.3 Service navigation
9.5.4 Display of time
9.6 Recording devices
9.6.1 Programming
9.6.2 Execution of recording
9.6.3 Control of analogue recorders
10 Subtitles
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Broadcast specifications
10.2.1 DVB subtitles
10.2.2 Signalling
10.2.3 Recommendation
10.3 Receiver functions
10.3.1 Background
10.3.2 User control of receiver behaviour
11 VBI based services
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Broadcast specifications
11.3 Receiver functions
11.3.1 Processing capabilities
11.3.2 Control
11.4 Extended VBI format support
11.4.1 VPS
11.4.2 WSS
11.4.3 Teletext and teletext subtitles
12 RF-part and channel decoder
12.1 General
12.2 Frequencies and channel bandwidth
12.3 DVB-T modes
12.4 Tuning procedure
12.5 Change of modulation parameters
12.6 Connector
12.7 Performance
12.7.1 C/N performance
12.7.2 Minimum receiver signal input levels
12.7.3 Maximum input level
12.7.4 Resistance to analogue and/or digital
signals in other channel
12.7.5 Resistance to co-channel interference
from analogue TV signals
12.7.6 Guard interval utilisation in single
frequency networks
13 Conditional access and the common interface
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Minimum Requirements
Annex A (normative) SI character set
A.1 Set of languages supported
A.2 Structure of character table
Annex B (normative) DVB-SI PDC descriptor
B.1 Introduction
B.2 PDC descriptor
Annex C (informative) Bootloader and software download
C.1 Overview
C.2 Signalling
C.3 User interface
Annex D (normative) Subtitling
D.1 Introduction
D.2 Essential requirements
D.3 Corrigenda to ETS 300 743
D.4 Clarifications to ETS 300 743
D.5 Revised decoder model
D.6 UK specific features
D.7 OSD Conflicts
D.8 System capabilities (informative)
D.9 Encoding Guidelines (informative)
D.10 Decoder treatment of errors
Annex E (informative) An example of frequencies and
offsets
E.1 UHF
E.2 VHF
Annex F (informative) Noise model
Annex G (informative) An example of C/N-performance with
a practical transmitter
Annex ZA (normative) Normative references to international
publications with their corresponding European
publications
Bibliography
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