ISDB and MPEG Essentials
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In London
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This course provides an overview of television broadcast systems and infrastructures. It is intended for developers, users, application builders and those who need a technical overview who are new to Digital TV systems used in the TV industry and focuses mainly on TSDB-T systems. This course examines the delivery of TV images for SDTV and broadcast quality where MPEG-2 has been used for many years. However to deliver higher resolutions without more bandwidth greater compression is needed so the course will examine advance Video encoding, MPEG-4 and H.264 for use on HDTV. Broadcasting systems depend upon delivery over MPEG transport streams so the course will examine how MPEG-2 transport streams can be used to carry services encoded in MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and H.264. It will provide an understanding of how service information is delivered and how conditional access is encoded. The course will also examine the architecture of set top boxes and address the issues of middleware and chip-sets.
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Technical staff working in an MPEG video environment who need an understanding of the specific technologies and issues associated with implementing and working with SD and HD MPEG and DVB systems.
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- Access
- IT
- Protocol
- Quality
- Broadcasting
- Systems
- Quality Training
- Broadcast
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Television Architecture (10 topics)
- Colour Television
- NTSC, PAL, SECAM
- Digital Video Broadcasting
- Formats:
- 4:2:2, 4:2:0
- Digitally-Compressed Television
- Digital Modulation :MPEG Hierarchy, MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4
- Digital Video Broadcasting
- Cable Networking Protocols
- Over-the-air broadcasting
Television Distribution Technology (4 topics)
- Head-ends
- Head-end Signal Processing
- Head-end Operation
- Delivery Mechanisms
TV Distribution Systems (12 topics)
- Terrestrial UHF/VHF Broadcast Delivery
- Satellite Television Delivery
- Cable Television Delivery
- IPTV Deliver
- From head-end to viewer
- Back-Channel
- Set-Top Box Issues
- Next Generation Media Players
- IPTV Service Features
- Encoder Classification: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264
- ETSI Digital Video Broadcast Standards
- DVB-C, DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, DVB-H, DVB-IPI
MPEG Encoding (14 topics)
- Source Encoding
- MPEG Compression Concepts
- Prediction and Interpolation
- Reordering
- Motion: Prediction, estimation and compensation
- I, P and B Pictures
- MPEG Levels and Profiles
- Audio Compression
- Framing Formats
- Multiplexing of Signals
- Pacetised Element Stream(PES)
- Decode Time Stamp (DTS)
- Presentation Time Stamp (PTS)
- System Clock Reference (SCR)
MPEG Transport Streams and Packets (15 topics)
- Transport stream format
- MPEG Packets and headers
- Service Information (SI), Program Specific Information (PSI)
- Program Association Table (PAT)
- Program Map Table (PMT)
- Conditional Access Table (CAT)
- NIT, SDT & EITs
- Effect on STB Behaviour
- Channel Coding and Forward Error RCorrection
- Energy Dispersal
- Reed-Solomon Coding
- Convolutional Coding
- Interleaving
- Trellis Decoding
- Temporal Spreading
MPEG-4 and H.264 Standards (9 topics)
- Motion Vectors
- Video Packet Structure
- Interlacing
- Motion Compensation of VOP
- Advanced Coding Efficiency (ACE)
- Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
- Dolby Digital (AC3)
- Audio Codec 3, Advanced Codec 3, Acoustic Coder 3
- Studio Quality Encoding
MPEG4 Part 10 and H.264 (16 topics)
- Syntax of Encoding
- H.264 Modes: I, P, B,
- Slices and Macro Blocks
- Macro Prediction
- Intra Prediction
- Luma, Chroma and Signalling prediction
- Deblocking Filter
- Transform Quantization
- Reordering
- Entropy Coding
- Main Profile
- B Slices and Reference Pictures
- Weighted Prediction
- Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC)
- Extended Profiles
- MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.264 Comparisons
Conditional Access (12 topics)
- Conditional Access Mechanisms
- CA Standards
- DVB-CSA
- Simulcrypt & Interoperability
- Common Interface
- Encryption
- Entitlement Management Messages (EMM)
- Entitlement Control Messages (ECM)
- Encoding ECM and EMM into the transport stream
- Subscriber Management Systems (SMS)
- Smartcards and how do they work
- Pay-Per-View (PPV) & Impulse-Pay-Per-View (IPPV)
Encryption Mechanisms (6 topics)
- Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Systems
- Public Key Infrastructures
- Key Distribution
- Security Issues
- Authentication
- MD5 and SHA
IPTV Delivery Protocols (9 topics)
- DVB-IPI
- UDP/IP
- RTP
- RTCP
- Quality of Service
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 QoS compared
- The Quality of Service Alphabet Soup:
- 802.1P/Q, RSVP, WFQ, DiffServ, DSCP, MPLS
- Pro-MPEG Error Recovery
Multicasting (9 topics)
- Deploying Multicasting for network delivery of video
- Multicast routing approaches
- Multicast extensions to Routing protocols
- Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
- Selecting Mode of operation: Dense or Sparse
- IGMP
- Protocol exchanges to build tree
- Protocol exchanges to prune tree
- Potential failures and fixes
ISDB and MPEG Essentials