RP 204:2000 - SMPTE Recommended Practice - SDTI-CP MPEG Decoder Templates

This practice defines decoder templates for the encoding of SDTI content packages (SDTI-CP) with MPEG coded picture streams. — The SDTI-CP comprises a standard for the package format and a further standard for the definition of elements and metadata. The combination of these two standards results in a very flexible means of transferring content over the SMPTE 305M (SDTI) transport which would demand an unnecessarily complex receiver/decoders if all possibilities were met. The purpose of this practice is to provide appropriate limits to the requirements for a receiver/decoder in order to allow practical working devices to be supplied to meet the needs of defined operations. — Additional MPEG templates are expected to be added to this practice as the standard matures. It is recommended that each new template is a superset of previous templates so that any decoder defined by a template in this document can operate with both the defined template and all subsets.