Aurora Multimedia VPH-100, Owner'S Manual

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NTSC National Television Systems Committee
– Refers to the Analog Color Television Standard as used in North
America
Passband The part of a signal spectrum not to be attenuated by a filtering function.
PAT Program Association Table
PES Packetized Elementary Stream
PHY Physical Layer
PID Packet Identifier
– A unique integer value used to identify the contents of an MPEG-2 Transport Stream packet.
PMT Program Map Table
PSIP Program and System Information Protocol
– A method of describing Naming and Navigation data for a multi
program transport stream as defined in ATSC A/65A.
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
– A signaling modulation scheme, defined in ITU-T J.83B that combines
phase and amplitude modulation.
RF Radio Frequency
– Used to describe the part of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum that is used to transmit
video, audio, and data over the air or via coaxial cable.
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol - defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over the LAN
or Internet.
SMPTE Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
– A Standards Organization devoted to advancing theory
and application in motion imaging, including film, television, video, computer imaging, and telecommunications.
TS Transport Stream
– An MPEG-2 Transport Stream as described in ISO/IEC 13818-1
TV Television
256 QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation with 256 constellation points
64 QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation with 64 constellation points