Chapter 12 - MPEG decoder
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MPEG decoder
Chapter 12
The instrument is equipped as standard with a MPEG2/4 decoder. This forms the back-end of a
DVB receiver. It analyses the Program Service Information (PSI) and decodes the digital audio and
video data.
12.1
Program Service Information (PSI)
For digital television (DVB), data is transmitted as sequential data bytes in a transport stream (TS).
As a rule the transport stream contains several video and audio programs, but also data streams
and additional information on programs, which are transmitted in time multiplex. Special tables,
which can be transmitted in the transport stream, provide information about the programs being
broadcast or about data services. The receiver must first analyses the PSI tables in order to
provide the user with an overview in the form of program lists. This process can last a few seconds
(depending on the number of programs) and can be viewed in the MPEG area of the display.
Figure 12-1 DVB-C PSI information
In this operating mode, the central area of the screen is used as the MPEG area. The display
shows a running new program search in a DVB-C channel.
A program list is displayed in this screen area when the program search has been successfully
completed. The inverted display of the
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menu item in the menu bar indicates that the
program list can be navigated around using the arrow keys.