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ATSC Standards

A/72 Part 1: Video System Characteristics of AVC in the ATSC Digital Television System

29 July 2008, Download PDF File

This Part describes the video coding constraints on ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 [1] (“AVC”) video compression in the ATSC Digital Television System. The Transport Stream constraints for AVC are described in Part 2 of this standard.

A/72 Part 2: AVC Video Transport Subsystem Characteristics

29 July 2008, Download PDF File

This Part describes the transport of ATSC A/72 Part 1 (“AVC”) video in the ATSC Digital Television System. The syntax and semantics of this specification conform to ATSC A/53 Part 3 [1], with additional constraints specified in this standard. “AVC” in this Part refers to the constrained version of ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 [2] as defined in Part 1 of this Standard.

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