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A collection of M/H Groups that have the same M/H FEC parameters. A Parade is contained within one M/H Frame. Each M/H Parade carries one or two M/H Ensembles.
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A collection of M/H Ensembles in which the IP addresses of the IP streams in the M/H Services in the Ensembles have been coordinated to avoid any IP address collisions. A single M/H Multiplex may include one or more M/H Ensembles.
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A defined set of M/H Blocks, designated as Region A, B, C, or D.
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At the MPEG-2 transport stream level, a collection of 118 consecutive MHE MPEG-2 transport packets delivering M/H service data; also, the corresponding data symbols in the 8-VSB signal after interleaving and trellis coding.
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Time period that carries main ATSC data and M/H data (encapsulated as MHE packets) equal in duration of exactly 20 VSB data frames (~968 msec.).
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A collection of consecutive RS Frames with the same FEC coding, wherein each RS Frame encapsulates a specific number of data bytes arranged in datagrams.
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The entire M/H portion of a physical transmission channel.
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A defined series of contiguous transmitted VSB data segments within an M/H Group, containing M/H data or a combination of main (legacy) and M/H data.
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Information about data essence; a type of content which describes content. Metadata may also be construed as data essence in certain contexts; that is, the relationship between metadata and data essence is mutually recursive.
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Information about essence.
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