SMPTE 2022 for Broadcast Engineers
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In London
Description
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Location
London
Background
• The pros and cons of using IP networks for broadcast • Current IP solutions • Overview of SDI and HD-SDI
Applications for IP networks
• contribution feeds • internal infrastructure • program distribution • media exchange
Summary of SMPTE2022
• Overview of parts 1-7 • Part 2: Unidirectional Transport of Constant Bit Rate MPEG-2 Transport Streams on IP Networks • Part 6: Transport of High Bit Rate Media Signals over IP Networks (HBRMT)
Redundancy and resilience
• Compressed and uncompressed signals (JPEG2000, AVC-I) • Error correction (part 1 and 5) • Multiple path systems (part 7) • Network Timing issues
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About this course
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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Subjects
- Access
- Networks
- IT
- Network
- Protocol
- Quality
- Broadcasting
- Systems
- Quality Training
- IP
- Network Training
- Broadcast
- Media
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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
SMPTE 2022 for Broadcast Engineers