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Video Encoding and Transport

3 Day Course
Hands On
Official Curriculum
Code PWL325

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Overview

In order to build and troubleshoot an IPTV service, designers and engineers must return to the fundaments of television and appreciate how services are encoded and delivered. IPTV Head-ends generally provide services from satellite delivered channels over DVB-T. Some services, Such as BT-Vision use Digital Video Broadcast technology to deliver some channels over DVB-T. IPTV will generally use protocols described in DVB-IPI.

This course will provide an understanding of how Analogue television evolved into Digital Video Broadcast (DVB). It will describe the structure of DVB transmissions and provide attendees with the opportunity to analyze streams with a transport stream analyzer.

Bandwidth is always a problem for TV distribution as it is the key element affecting the price of providing service. The course will explain in detail how different encoding methods are used to deliver higher quality services.

Delegates on this course will complete 'Hands On' sessions which will enable them to design and troubleshoot Digital TV and IPTV services.

Objectives

Upon completion candidates will be able to:

  • Describe how Digital Television has evolved
  • Appreciate how DVB services through satellite, terrestrial and IP use common transport formats
  • Analyze Transport streams to troubleshoot problems
  • Encode content both live and re-coded into MPEG-2 and H.246 formats
  • Appreciate how MPEG-2  MPEG-4 Part 10 and H.264 encoding works
  • Transcode Terrestrial and Satellite transport streams and stream out over multicast IPTV services
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Television Architecture and Evolution (9 topics)

  • Colour Television
  • NTSC, PAL, SECAM
  • Digital Video Broadcasting Formats
  • Analogue Television
  • Teletext, captions and sub-titles
  • Digital Television
  • Digital Modulation: MPEG Hierarchy, MPEG1, MPEG2
  • Digital Video Broadcasting
  • Over-the-air broadcasting

Television Head-End Technology for Broadcasting (8 topics)

  • Digital vs Analogue
  • Head-ends
  • Signal Reception
  • Head-end Signal Processing
  • Head-end Operation
  • Encoders and Multiplexers
  • Delivery Mechanisms
  • Broadband Distribution Systems

MPEG Encoding (12 topics)

  • Compression Concepts
  • MPEG Compression
  • I, P and B Pictures
  • Prediction and Interpolation
  • Reordering
  • Motion: Prediction, estimation and compensation
  • MPEG Levels and Profiles
  • Audio Compression
  • Framing Formats
  • Multiplexing of Signals
  • Hands-on Exercise: Configuring a Camera Feed and Encoding in MPEG
  • Hands-on Exercise: Analyzing MPEG Program Stream

MPEG-4 and H.264 Standards (18 topics)

  • Related standards and Evolution
  • Video Object Plane (VOP)
  • Static Sprite Coding
  • Advanced Coding Efficiency (ACE)
  • Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
  • Texture Coding
  • Studio Quality Encoding
  • AVC, H.26L, H.264 and other names
  • Syntax of Encoding
  • H.264 Modes and Slices: I, P, B, SP and SI
  • Intra Prediction
  • Luma, Chroma and Signaling prediction
  • Deblocking Filter
  • Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC)
  • Extended Profiles
  • MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.264 Comparisons
  • Hands-on Exercise: Encoding in H.264
  • Hands-on Exercise: Playing HDTV encoded in H.264

MPEG-2 Transport Streams and Packets (11 topics)

  • MPEG-2 Transport Stream
  • Programme Streams
  • Encoding Tables
  • PCR
  • EPG
  • Error Control of Over Air Transmission
  • Transport Stream Table Analysis
  • Hands-on Exercise: Installing and using a Transport Stream Analyzer
  • Hands-on Exercise: Analyzing a Satellite Transport Stream
  • Hands-on Exercise: Analyzing a Terrestrial TV Transport Stream
  • Hands-on Exercise: Analyzing Multicast IPTV Transport Stream

TV Content Production (5 topics)

  • Planning Content Production
  • Pre Production
  • Camera and Encoding Technology
  • Post Production
  • Hands-on Exercise: Content Editing and Production

Customer Interface Issues: Set-top Boxes (8 topics)

  • STB architecture
  • Inside a digital STB
  • Middlewares
  • STB software stack
  • Display formats
  • HDMI
  • HDMI Video and Audio Format Support
  • Comparison Between Interfaces

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a general appreciation of IPTV and broadcasting.

Relevant Certifications

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What Our Customers Say

“Enjoyable and very worthwhile course”

— Principle on Compliance Engineer, Liberty Global

“The training was delivered with a high level of expertise and excellence. Instructor was highly knowledgeable.”

— Technical Trainer, Aviat Networks

“Overall the course was really good, the trainer really understood the material and was very approachable.”

— Customer Training Manager, Aviat Networks

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— CSE, Cisco

“Course was very well outlined. Topics were great and bridged many gaps.”

— System Engineer, Cable & Wireless

“An excellent intro to video encoding & MPEG transport streams - I would definitely recommend it.”

— Broadcast Engineer, Cisco

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