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	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	Implementation guidelines for the use of MPEG-2 systems; Guidelines on implementation and usage of service information
ITU-T H.222.0	MPEG2 Stream Format

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Links:

http://www.dvb.org/

http://www.etsi.org/