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A data structure used to establish a link from an object reference to a lower layer communication channel.
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A reference to a data resource, including but not limited to: a data elementary stream, a data carousel module, or a network resource.
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A piece of text that describes a unit of data, or element, in XML. The tag is distinguishable as markup, as opposed to data, because it is surrounded by angle brackets (< and >). For example, the element My 100 has the start tag , the end tag , which enclose the data “100”. To […]
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A collection of tables describing virtual channel attributes, event features, and others. PSIP tables are compliant with the private section syntax of ISO/IEC 13818-1.
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A collection of re-assembled sections with a common table_id, table_id_extension, and version_number. Examples are the PSIP EITs and the Data Broadcasting DETs, where the source_id appears in the table_id_extension field to distinguish different instances of the tables.
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Tables are identified by the table_id field. However, in cases such as the data event table, several instances of a table are defined simultaneously. All instances are conveyed in transport stream packets of the same PID value and have the same table_id field value. Each instance has a different table_id_extension value.
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Tables are identified by the table_id field. However, in cases such as the RRT and EIT, several instances of a table may be defined simultaneously. All instances have the same PID and table_id but different table_id_extension.
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The collection of re-assembled sections bearing a common version number.
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The collection of re-assembled sections bearing a common table_id and version number. Note that this definition of table constrains version-number to apply to the collection of sections as contrasted to each section.
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A property of a code in which the code word is composed of the original data in its sequential order followed by parity data for the codeword.
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