MPEG-2 Standard: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:32, 17 January 2008

The MPEG-2 Standard is defined in ISO-13818, which is comprised of the following documents (some of them are also published by ITU):

ISO-13818-1 aka ITU-T H.222.0

Systems (definition of the MPEG-2 Stream Formats, the decoder model and the timing/synchronization model)

ISO-13818-4

Conformance testing (read if you want to write a multiplexer or an encoder)

ISO-13818-6

Extensions for DSM-CC (Digital Storage Media Command and Control). The DSM-CC specification covers several different aspects of broadband service delivery. One of these includes the "Download" Protocol, which has several variations, including DSM-CC ObjectCarousel, which is used to transmit interactive multimedia information, such as is the case with MHP or MHEG-5 applications, and other data.

For a full list of the MPEG-2 standard's documents, see the ISO website.

Given that the MPEG-2 Standard is a superset of the MPEG-1 Standard, you will find that it will, in places, refer to the older MPEG-1 standards documents (especially in the case of audio coding), so you may wish to read ISO-11172 as well
The DVB Standards
The ATSC Standards

You can buy all of the above documents from the ISO website; however they are quite expensive.
ITU, on the other hand, comes to the rescue by permitting any individual to (after registration) download up to three documents for free.
Wikipedia's MPEG-2 article
Wikipedia's MPEG article

@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
 *;ISO-13818-4 : Conformance testing (read if you want to write a multiplexer or an encoder)
-*;ISO-13818-6 : DSM-CC (Digital Storage Media Command and Control, used to transmit [[MHP]] applications and other data
+*;ISO-13818-6 : Extensions for DSM-CC (Digital Storage Media Command and Control).  The DSM-CC specification covers several different aspects of broadband service delivery.  One of these includes the "Download" Protocol, which has several variations, including [[DSM-CC ObjectCarousel Protocol|DSM-CC ObjectCarousel]], which is used to transmit interactive multimedia information, such as is the case with [[MHP]] or [[MHEG-5]] applications, and other data.
 *;ISO-13818-7 : Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
 For a full list of the MPEG-2 standard's documents, see the ISO website.
-In addition, given that the MPEG-2 Standard is a superset of the [[MPEG-1 Standard]], you will find that it will, in places, refer to the older MPEG-1 standards documents (especially in the case of audio coding), so you may wish to read ISO-11172 as well.
 ==Also See==
+* Given that the MPEG-2 Standard is a superset of the [[MPEG-1 Standard]], you will find that it will, in places, refer to the older MPEG-1 standards documents (especially in the case of audio coding), so you may wish to read ISO-11172 as well
 * The [[DVB Standards]]
 * The [[ATSC|ATSC Standard]]s