Digital television : MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and principles of the DVB system / Hervé Benoit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benoit, Hervé, author.

Standardized Title:

Télévision numérique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital television.

MPEG (Video coding standard).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier Science, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Written as an authoritative introduction, this text describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard following the logical progression of signal processing steps, as well as COFDM modulation, source and channel coding, MPEG compression and multiplexing methods, conditional access and set-top box technology. If you are looking for a concise technical `briefing' that will quickly get you up to speed with the subject without getting lost in the detail - this is the book you need.<B

Contents:

Cover; Digital Television MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and principles of the DVB system; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Colour television: a review of current standards; 1.1 Monochrome TV basics; 1.2 Black and white compatible colour systems; 2 Digitization of video signals; 2.1 Why digitize video signals?; 2.2 Digitization formats; 2.3 Transport problems; 3 Source coding: compression of video and audio signals; 3.1 Some general data compression principles; 3.2 Compression applied to images: the discrete cosine transform (DCT); 3.3 Compression of fixed pictures

3.4 Compression of moving pictures (MPEG)3.5 Compression of audio signals; 4 Source multiplexing; 4.1 Organization of the MPEG-1 multiplex: system layer; 4.2 Organization of the MPEG-2 multiplex: program and transport streams; 5 Scrambling and conditional access; 5.1 Principles of the scrambling system in the DVB standard; 5.2 Conditional access mechanisms; 5.3 Main conditional access systems; 6 Channel coding (forward error correction); 6.1 Energy dispersal (randomizing); 6.2 Reed-Solomon coding (outer coding); 6.3 Forney convolutional interleaving (temporal spreading of errors)

6.4 Convolutional coding (inner coding)7 Modulation by digital signals; 7.1 General discussion on the modulation of a carrier by digital signals; 7.2 Quadrature modulations; 7.3 Modulation characteristics for cable and satellite digital TV broadcasting (DVB-C and DVB-S); 7.4 OFDM modulation for terrestrial digital TV (DVB-T); 7.5 Summary of DVB transmission characteristics (cable, satellite, terrestrial); 8 Reception of digital TV signals; 8.1 Global view of the transmission/reception process; 8.2 Composition of the integrated receiver decoder (IRD); 9 Middleware and interoperability aspects

9.1 Main proprietary middlewares used in Europe9.2 The open European 'middlewares'; 10 Evolution: state of the art and perspectives; 10.1 Digital terrestrial television; 10.2 Evolution of the set-top box; 10.3 New architectures; Appendix A: error detection and correction in digital transmissions; A1.1 An error detecting code: the parity bit; A1.2 Block error correction codes; A1.3 Convolutional coding; Appendix B: spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters; Appendix C: reception of the digital TV channels of ASTRA and EUTELSAT

Appendix D: the main other digital TV systemsD1.1 The DSS system (satellite, USA); D2.1 The ATSC system (terrestrial, USA); D3.1 The ISDB-T system (terrestrial, Japan); Appendix E: the IEEE1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus; Appendix F: the DiSEqC bus for antenna system control; F1.1 The DiSEqC levels; F2.1 DiSEqC basic principles; F3.1 Different fields of the DiSEqC message; Appendix G: the common interface (DVB-CI); Appendix H: example chipset for DVB decoders; Glossary of abbreviations, words and expressions; Abbreviations; Words and expressions; Bibliography; Books

Official documents (in English)

Notes:

Previous ed. of this translation: London : Arnold, 1997.

"Adapted and translated by the author"--T.p. verso.

Includes "Glossary of abbreviations, words and expressions" (p. [179]-191).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-194) and index.

ISBN:

9786611119430

9786611151157

9781281119438

1281119431

9780080504544

008050454X

OCLC:

191882625