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Communications Test & Measurement


MPEG-2 Pocket Guide
Digital Broadcast Systems

Pocket Guide to MPEG-2 Fundamentals and Testing

This pocket guide helps you become familiar with the basics of digital broadcast transmission.

It discusses, in some detail, MPEG-2 audio and video compression and the MPEG-2 system layer.

It also provides an overview of the DVB and ATSC standards, which are extensions of MPEG-2.

In addition to outlining the standards, it:

  • discusses the need for test and verification in the digital broadcast environment

  • provides several test scenarios

  • discusses why and how to test MPEG-2 transport streams in order to ensure the highest-quality transmission now and in the future

The pocket guide ends with a Glossary of Terms, a Reference Material list and an Index.

Download the complete pocket guide as a PDF file (656K)

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