DVB Standards

The Standard for Digital Video Broadcasts. Specified by the DVB Consortium and the European Telecommunication Standards Institute ETSI.

Accepted worldwide except: U.S. and some central/south american countries which broadcast a mixture of the proprietary DirecTV and standardized ATSC transmissions, and Japan which broadcast standardized ISDB transmissions.

http://www.dvb.org/ has a nice overview of the relevant standards documents ("Home > Technology > Standards & Specifications"). The individual documents are published by ETSI and can be downloaded for free (after registration) from http://www.etsi.org/.

List of Standard Parts

Important parts of the DVB Standard are

Full Standard Reference	Description
ITU-T H.222.0	MPEG-2 Stream Format Definitions
ETSI EN 300 468	Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems
ETSI TR 101 211	Guidelines on implementation and usage of Service Information (SI)
ETSI ETR 211	Guidelines on implementation and usage of Service Information (SI)
ETS 300 472	Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for conveying ITU-R System B Teletext in DVB
ETS 300 421	Digital broadcasting systems for television, sound and data services; Framing structure, channel coding and Modulation for 11/12 GHz satellite services
ETS 300 429	Digital broadcasting systems for television, sound and data services; Framing structure, channel coding and Modulation for cable systems
ETS 300 744	Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Framing structure, channel coding and Modulation for digital Terrestrial television (DVB-T)
ETR 289	Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Support for use of scrambling and Conditional Access (CA) within digital broadcasting systems

Links

• http://www.dvb.org/
• http://www.etsi.org/
  • ETSI Registration form
  • ETSI Query form
• http://www.itu.int/
  • ITU 3-Free registration form
  • ITU H.222.0 standard
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB