DVB Standards

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

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

Important parts of the DVB Standard are

Reference	Description
ETSI EN 300 468	DVB Service Information (SI) Tables
ETSI TR 101 211	Guidelines on implementation and usage of Service Information (SI)
ETSI ETR 211	?!?check me!?! Implementation Recommendations?
ITU-T H.222.0	MPEG2 Stream Format

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Links:

http://www.dvb.org/

http://www.etsi.org/