ETSI EN 300 468 V1.6.1 (2004-11)

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems

REN/JTC-DVB-158

Digitalna videoradiodifuzija (DVB) – Specifikacija za servisne informacije (SI) v sistemih DVB

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 03-Nov-2004
• Technical Committee: BROADCAS - EBU/CENELEC/ETSI on Broadcasting
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 05-Nov-2004
• Completion Date: 04-Nov-2004
• Mandate: M/331
• Ref Project: SIST EN 300 468 V1.6.1:2005 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems

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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 300 468 V1.6.1:2005
01-november-2005
Digitalna videoradiodifuzija (DVB) – Specifikacija za servisne informacije (SI) v
sistemih DVB
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB
systems
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 300 468 Version 1.6.1
ICS:
33.170 Televizijska in radijska Television and radio
difuzija broadcasting
SIST EN 300 468 V1.6.1:2005 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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SIST EN 300 468 V1.6.1:2005

ETSI EN 300 468 V1.6.1 (2004-11)
European Standard (Telecommunications series)


Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB);
Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems

European Broadcasting Union Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision
EBU·UER

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Reference
REN/JTC-DVB-158
Keywords
broadcasting, digital, DVB, MPEG, service, TV,
video
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights.5
Foreword.5
1 Scope.6
2 References.6
3 Definitions and abbreviations.8
3.1 Definitions.8
3.2 Abbreviations.10
4 Service Information (SI) description.11
5 Service Information (SI) tables .13
5.1 SI table mechanism.13
5.1.1 Explanation.14
5.1.2 Mapping of sections into Transport Stream (TS) packets.14
5.1.3 Coding of PID and table_id fields .15
5.1.4 Repetition rates and random access .16
5.1.5 Scrambling.16
5.2 Table definitions.16
5.2.1 Network Information Table (NIT).16
5.2.2 Bouquet Association Table (BAT) .18
5.2.3 Service Description Table (SDT).19
5.2.4 Event Information Table (EIT) .21
5.2.5 Time and Date Table (TDT) .23
5.2.6 Time Offset Table (TOT) .24
5.2.7 Running Status Table (RST).24
5.2.8 Stuffing Table (ST).25
5.2.9 Discontinuity Information Table (DIT) .26
5.2.10 Selection Information Table (SIT).26
6 Descriptors .26
6.1 Descriptor identification and location .26
6.2 Descriptor coding.27
6.2.1 Adaptation field data descriptor.27
6.2.2 Ancillary data descriptor.28
6.2.3 Announcement support descriptor .29
6.2.4 Bouquet name descriptor .30
6.2.5 CA identifier descriptor .31
6.2.6 Cell frequency link descriptor.31
6.2.7 Cell list descriptor.32
6.2.8 Component descriptor.33
6.2.9 Content descriptor.35
6.2.10 Country availability descriptor .37
6.2.11 Data broadcast descriptor.38
6.2.12 Data broadcast id descriptor.39
6.2.13 Delivery system descriptors.39
6.2.13.1 Cable delivery system descriptor .39
6.2.13.2 Satellite delivery system descriptor.41
6.2.13.3 Terrestrial delivery system descriptor .42
6.2.14 DSNG descriptor.44
6.2.15 Extended event descriptor.44
6.2.16 Frequency list descriptor.46
6.2.17 Linkage descriptor .46
6.2.18 Local time offset descriptor .49
6.2.19 Mosaic descriptor.50
6.2.20 Multilingual bouquet name descriptor .52
6.2.21 Multilingual component descriptor.53
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6.2.22 Multilingual network name descriptor.54
6.2.23 Multilingual service name descriptor.54
6.2.24 Near Video On Demand (NVOD) reference descriptor.55
6.2.25 Network name descriptor.56
6.2.26 Parental rating descriptor .56
6.2.27 Partial Transport Stream (TS) descriptor.56
6.2.28 PDC descriptor.57
6.2.29 Private data specifier descriptor.57
6.2.30 Scrambling descriptor.57
6.2.31 Service descriptor .58
6.2.32 Service availability descriptor.59
6.2.33 Service list descriptor.60
6.2.34 Service move descriptor.60
6.2.35 Short event descriptor .60
6.2.36 Short smoothing buffer descriptor .61
6.2.37 Stream identifier descriptor.63
6.2.38 Stuffing descriptor .63
6.2.39 Subtitling descriptor.64
6.2.40 Telephone descriptor.64
6.2.41 Teletext descriptor.66
6.2.42 Time shifted event descriptor.67
6.2.43 Time shifted service descriptor.67
6.2.44 Transport stream descriptor .67
6.2.45 VBI data descriptor.68
6.2.46 VBI teletext descriptor.69
7 Storage Media Interoperability (SMI) measures .69
7.1 SMI tables.70
7.1.1 Discontinuity Information Table (DIT) .70
7.1.2 Selection Information Table (SIT).71
7.2 SMI descriptors.72
7.2.1 Partial Transport Stream (TS) descriptor.72
Annex A (normative): Coding of text characters .73
A.1 Control codes.73
A.2 Selection of character table .73
Annex B (normative): CRC decoder model.86
Annex C (informative): Conversion between time and date conventions .87
Annex D (informative): Service information implementation of AC-3 audio in DVB systems.89
D.1 AC-3 component types.89
D.2 AC-3 Descriptor.90
D.3 AC-3 Descriptor Syntax .90
D.3.1 Semantics for the AC-3 descriptor .90
Annex E (normative): Usage of the Scrambling_descriptor .92
Annex F (informative): ISO 639 Language Descriptor for "original audio" Soundtrack .93
Annex G (informative): Bibliography.94
History .95

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Intellectual Property Rights
IPRs essential or potentially essential to the present document may have been declared to ETSI. The information
pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web
server (http://webapp.etsi.org/IPR/home.asp).
Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee
can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web
server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
Foreword
This European Standard (Telecommunications series) has been produced by Joint Technical Committee (JTC)
Broadcast of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Comité Européen de Normalisation ELECtrotechnique
(CENELEC) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
NOTE: The EBU/ETSI JTC Broadcast was established in 1990 to co-ordinate the drafting of standards in the
specific field of broadcasting and related fields. Since 1995 the JTC Broadcast became a tripartite body
by including in the Memorandum of Understanding also CENELEC, which is responsible for the
standardization of radio and television receivers. The EBU is a professional association of broadcasting
organizations whose work includes the co-ordination of its members' activities in the technical, legal,
programme-making and programme-exchange domains. The EBU has active members in about
60 countries in the European broadcasting area; its headquarters is in Geneva.
European Broadcasting Union
CH-1218 GRAND SACONNEX (Geneva)
Switzerland
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Founded in September 1993, the DVB Project is a market-led consortium of public and private sector organizations in
the television industry. Its aim is to establish the framework for the introduction of MPEG-2 based digital television
services. Now comprising over 200 organizations from more than 25 countries around the world, DVB fosters
market-led systems, which meet the real needs, and economic circumstances, of the consumer electronics and the
broadcast industry.

National transposition dates
Date of adoption of this EN: 22 October 2004
Date of latest announcement of this EN (doa): 31 January 2005
Date of latest publication of new National Standard
or endorsement of this EN (dop/e): 31 July 2005
Date of withdrawal of any conflicting National Standard (dow): 31 July 2005

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1 Scope
The present document specifies the Service Information (SI) data which forms a part of DVB bitstreams, in order that
the user can be provided with information to assist in selection of services and/or events within the bitstream, and so
that the Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) can automatically configure itself for the selected service. SI data for
automatic configuration is mostly specified within ISO/IEC 13818-1 [1] as Program Specific Information (PSI).
The present document specifies additional data which complements the PSI by providing data to aid automatic tuning of
IRDs, and additional information intended for display to the user. The manner of presentation of the information is not
specified in the present document, and IRD manufacturers have freedom to choose appropriate presentation methods.
It is expected that Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) will be a feature of Digital TV transmissions.
The definition of an EPG is outside the scope of the present document (i.e. the SI specification), but the data contained
within the SI specified in the present document may be used as the basis for an EPG.
Rules of operation for the implementation of the present document are specified in TR 101 211 [7].
2 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
• References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific.
• For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
• For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
[1] ISO/IEC 13818-1: "Information technology - Generic coding of moving pictures and associated
audio information: Systems".
[2] ISO 3166 (all parts): "Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions".
[3] ISO 639-2: "Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 2: Alpha-3 code".
[4] ETSI EN 300 706: "Enhanced Teletext specification".
[5] ISO/IEC 8859-1: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1".
[6] ETSI ETR 162: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Allocation of Service Information (SI) codes
for DVB systems".
[7] ETSI TR 101 211: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Guidelines on implementation and usage
of Service Information (SI)".
[8] ISO/IEC 10646: "Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)".
[9] ISO/IEC 6937: "Information technology - Coded graphic character set for text communication -
Latin alphabet".
[10] IEC 61883 (parts 1 and 4): "Consumer audio/video equipment - Digital interface".
[11] ETSI TR 101 154: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Implementation guidelines for the use of
MPEG-2 Systems, Video and Audio in satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasting applications".
[12] IEEE 1394.1: "Standard for High Performance Serial Bus Bridges".
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[13] ETSI EN 300 231: "Television systems; Specification of the domestic video Programme Delivery
Control system (PDC)".
[14] ETSI EN 301 210: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Framing structure, channel coding and
modulation for Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) and other contribution applications by
satellite".
[15] ETSI EN 301 775: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for the carriage of Vertical
Blanking Information (VBI) data in DVB bitstreams".
[16] CENELEC EN 50221: "Common interface specification for conditional access and other digital
video broadcasting decoder applications".
[17] Korea Industrial Standards Association: "Code for Information Interchange (Hangul and Hanja)"
Korean Industrial Standard, 1987, Ref. No. KS C 5601-1987.
[18] ITU-R Recommendation BS.1196.1 (annex 2): "Audio coding for digital terrestrial television
broadcasting".
NOTE: Annex 2 contains additional information on the AC-3 audio encoding algorithm and decoding
requirements, relevant to the present document. Appendix 1 to annex 2 of this Recommendation should
be disregarded as it is not applicable to the present document.
[19] ETSI EN 300 401: "Radio Broadcasting Systems; Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) to mobile,
portable and fixed receivers".
[20] ETSI TS 102 006: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for System Software Update
in DVB Systems".
[21] ISO 2015: "Numbering of weeks".
[22] ISO/IEC 8859-15: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9".
[23] ISO/IEC 8859-14: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 14: Latin alphabet No. 8 (Celtic)".
[24] ISO/IEC 8859-13: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 13: Latin alphabet No. 7".
[25] ISO/IEC 8859-11: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 11: Latin/Thai alphabet".
[26] ISO/IEC 8859-10: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6".
[27] ISO/IEC 8859-9: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5".
[28] ISO/IEC 8859-8: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 8: Latin/Hebrew alphabet".
[29] ISO/IEC 8859-7: "Information processing - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet".
[30] ISO/IEC 8859-6: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet".
[31] ISO/IEC 8859-5: "Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -
Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet".
[32] ISO/IEC 13818-3: Information technology - Generic coding of moving pictures and associated
audio information - Part 3: Audio".
[33] ISO/IEC 11172-3: "Information technology - Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for
digital storage media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s - Part 3: Audio".
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[34] ETSI EN 301 790: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Interaction channel for satellite
distribution systems".
[35] ISO/IEC 13818-2: "Information technology - Generic coding of moving pictures and associated
audio information: Video".
[36] ETSI TS 102 323: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Carriage and signalling of TV-Anytime
information in DVB transport streams".
[37] ETSI EN 301 192: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); DVB specification for data broadcasting".
3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the following terms and definitions apply:
AC-3: refers to the coding of audio using the Dolby AC-3 method
NOTE: The Service Information requirements for AC-3 streams carried in DVB systems is described in annex D.
The carriage of AC-3 elementary streams as private data within MPEG systems is described in annex C of
TR 101 154 [11].
bouquet: collection of services marketed as a single entity
broadcaster (SERVICE Provider): organization which assembles a sequence of events or programmes to be delivered
to the viewer based upon a schedule
cell: geographical area that is covered with DVB-T signals delivering one or more particular transport streams
throughout the area by means of one or more transmitters
NOTE: The cell may in addition contain repeaters. Two neighbouring cells may be intersecting or fully
overlapping. The cell_id that is used to uniquely identify a cell shall be unique within each
original_network_id. For hand-over purposes it is more convenient if the transport streams associated
with the cell cover exactly the same area, or only one transport stream per cell is used.
component (ELEMENTARY Stream): one or more entities which together make up an event, e.g. video, audio,
teletext
Conditional Access (CA) system: system to control subscriber access to services, programmes and events
e.g. Videoguard, Eurocrypt
delivery system: physical medium by which one or more multiplexes are transmitted e.g. satellite system, wide-band
coaxial cable, fibre optics, terrestrial channel of one emitting po
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