1、 Copyright 2007 by THE SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS 595 W. Hartsdale Ave., White Plains, NY 10607 (914) 761-1100 Approved July 27, 2007 Table of Contents Page Foreword 2 Introduction 2 1 Scope .3 2 Conformance Notation .3 3 Normative References .3 4 Physical Interface.4 4.1 Int
2、erface Data Rate.4 5 Communications Protocol 5 5.1 Discussion (Informative) .5 5.2 Operation of the CDP Serial Interface (Normative) 5 Annex A “Grand Alliance“ Protocol for Closed-Captioning Data (Informative)6 Annex B Bibliography (Informative) .7 Page 1 of 7 pages RP 2007-2007SMPTE RECOMMENDED PRA
3、CTICE Closed-Caption CDP and “Grand Alliance“ Serial Interfaces for DTV RP 2007-2007 Page 2 of 7 pages Foreword SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) is an internationally-recognized standards developing organization. Headquartered and incorporated in the United States of Am
4、erica, SMPTE has members in over 80 countries on six continents. SMPTEs Engineering Documents, including Standards, Recommended Practices and Engineering Guidelines, are prepared by SMPTEs Technology Committees. Participation in these Committees is open to all with a bona fide interest in their work
5、. SMPTE cooperates closely with other standards-developing organizations, including ISO, IEC and ITU. SMPTE Engineering Documents are drafted in accordance with the rules given in Part XIII of its Administrative Practices. This SMPTE Engineering Document was prepared by Technology Committee D27 on D
6、ata Essence in cooperation with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Introduction This section is entirely informative and does not form an integral part of this Engineering Document. This Recommended Practice defines two serial interfaces for carrying closed captioning data between DTV devic
7、es. The CDP interface was originally specified by Section 11.3 of CEA-708-B with amendments specified by CEB-10-A. CEA has transferred copyright on this material to SMPTE and it appears here on the basis of that agreement. RP 2007-2007 Page 3 of 7 pages 1 Scope This document defines two serial inter
8、faces which may be used to convey closed captioning streams. The CDP Interface carries the CEA-708/SMPTE 334-2 Caption Distribution Packet (CDP). This is principally intended for use in cases where there is a desire to provide some or all of the following information for downstream use: caption data
9、; caption service descriptors; and time codes. In one typical application, a DTVCC caption server could use this interface to send CDPs to a 334M VANC encoder. SMPTE 333M specifies an interface that is widely used for providing caption data and service information to ATSC emission encoders. The olde
10、r Grand Alliance interface can also be used for this same purpose. It is included here as Annex B to document its use in this application. 2 Conformance Notation Normative text is text that describes elements of the design that are indispensable or contains the conformance language keywords: “shall“
11、, “should“, or “may“. Informative text is text that is potentially helpful to the user, but not indispensable, and can be removed, changed, or added editorially without affecting interoperability. Informative text does not contain any conformance keywords. All text in this document is, by default, n
12、ormative, except: the Introduction, any section explicitly labeled as “Informative“ or individual paragraphs that start with “Note:” The keywords “shall“ and “shall not“ indicate requirements strictly to be followed in order to conform to the document and from which no deviation is permitted. The ke
13、ywords, “should“ and “should not“ indicate that, among several possibilities, one is recommended as particularly suitable, without mentioning or excluding others; or that a certain course of action is preferred but not necessarily required; or that (in the negative form) a certain possibility or cou
14、rse of action is deprecated but not prohibited. The keywords “may“ and “need not“ indicate courses of action permissible within the limits of the document. The keyword “reserved” indicates a provision that is not defined at this time, shall not be used, and may be defined in the future. The keyword
15、“forbidden” indicates “reserved” and in addition indicates that the provision will never be defined in the future. Unless otherwise specified the order of precedence of the types of normative information in this document shall be as follows. Normative prose shall be the authoritative definition. Tab
16、les shall be next, followed by formal languages, then figures, and then any other language forms. 3 Normative References The following standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this recommended practice. At the time of publication, the editions indi
17、cated were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this recommended practice are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of the standards indicated below. ATSC A/53, Part 4:2007, ATSC Digital Television Standard, Part 4 M
18、PEG-2 Video System Characteristics CEA-708-C, Digital Television (DTV) Closed Captioning SMPTE 334-2-2007, Caption Distribution Packet (CDP) Definition RP 2007-2007 Page 4 of 7 pages TIA-574 (2003), 9-Position Non-Synchronous Interface between Data Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit-Terminating Equ
19、ipment Employing Serial Binary Data Interchange14 Physical Interface The physical interface for a CDP stream shall be an TIA-574 interface. The source of the CDP stream shall be DTE with a 9-pin “D“ male connector, and the receiver of the CDP stream shall be DCE with a 9-pin “D“ female connector. Th
20、e physical interface shall only make use of the data connectors. No flow control (electrical or logical) is used in this interface. The devices at each end of the interface shall each provide for the parameter settings specified in Table 1. The recommended baud rate is 38,400, but, if necessary, the
21、 interface may also be operated at 57,600 or 115,200 baud. Table 1 TIA 574 interface parameters Parameter Setting Baud rate 38,400 b/s, 57,600 b/s, or 115,200 b/s, Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Start bits 1 4.1 Interface Data Rate The data rate required to convey a CDP stream is dependent on t
22、he frame rate of the associated video as well as the amount of service information included within each packet. The worst-case data rate would occur at a 60 Hz frame rate, with caption service information for 15 services carried within each CDP packet. In this case, the CDP packet size would be 159
23、bytes (assuming time code, caption data, and fully populated service information, plus 4 null bytes as defined in 5.2), and require a transmission rate of 9,540 bytes per second, or 95,400 bps over a serial interface with 1 start bit and 1 stop bit. If the service information is limited to describin
24、g only 1 service per CDP, then the CDP packet size would be 61 bytes and the maximum data rate becomes 3,660 bytes per second, or 36,600 bps over the serial interface. It is therefore practical to carry the CDP stream over a TIA-574 38,400 bps serial interface, although in some cases it is necessary
25、 to limit the amount of service information included in each CDP packet. Although 162 bytes is the longest packet that can be authored at the time of this writing, note that the actual upper bound on CDP length is 255 bytes. Equipment manufacturers that buffer CDPs for processing should reserve a bu
26、ffer of 255 bytes to avoid possible upward compatibility issues. 1TIA 574 is an extension of TIA-232 (2002) that specifies a 9-pin connector and speeds faster than 20 kb/s; i.e., an “RS-232” port on an IBM-compatible personal computer (TIA-232 specifies neither a 9-pin connector nor speeds faster th
27、an 20 kb/s). RP 2007-2007 Page 5 of 7 pages 5 Communications Protocol This section describes the typical application of the CDP serial interface. Other applications are not precluded. 5.1 Discussion (Informative) In a typical application, captioning intentions are captured in a high level representa
28、tion and then rendered into CEA-708 captioning packets. SMPTE time code may be employed to provide means for synchronizing the captioning intentions to the picture. With knowledge of the video frame rate and time code, the CEA-708 captioning packets may be formed into SMPTE 334-2 CDP packets, where
29、one CDP packet corresponds to each video frame. During real-time streaming of pictures over a video interface and the corresponding CDP packets over the CDP serial interface, all devices (such as VANC encoders and decoders) should process the CDP as quickly as possible, in order to avoid accumulatio
30、n of delay between the video and the captions. Specifically, a VANC encoder should insert each complete CDP into the next available frame. Similarly, a VANC decoder should present the complete CDP received with each video frame to its output serial interface before the beginning of the next frame. I
31、n systems where both the CDP packets and the individual pictures have time code values assigned, the ATSC encoder might rely on these time code values to establish synchronization between the encoded pictures and the captioning data that it inserts into the user data space of those coded pictures. I
32、n practice, this is seldom done, since delays caused by transmission equipment are typically small and deterministic, and can therefore be corrected easily without depending on time code. 5.2 Operation of the CDP Serial Interface (Normative) When SMPTE 334-2 CDPs are conveyed by this serial interfac
33、e, each CDP shall be preceded by four null bytes (0x00). These null bytes, plus the cdp_identifier (0x9669), form a unique 48-bit sync code that allows the serial receiver to synchronize to the CDP stream. NOTE These null bytes are not considered part of the CDP, and are not required when the CDP is
34、 carried by other interfaces. RP 2007-2007 Page 6 of 7 pages Annex A (Informative) “Grand Alliance“ Protocol for Closed-Captioning Data This protocol was originally developed in support of testing the DTVCC system with the “Grand Alliance” prototype hardware; subsequently this same protocol has achi
35、eved a substantial degree of usage in fielded systems. This system differs from SMPTE 333M in that there is no feedback from the ATSC (MPEG) encoder to the caption generator; rather, the caption generator is driven by the timing of its input video and “pushes“ the captions towards the ATSC encoder.
36、The protocol operates over a standard TIA-574 type serial connection at 19200 baud, 8 bits, one stop bit, no parity (8-N-1). The caption data is multiplexed into the DTV bitstream in approximate synchronization with the video frames that arrive simultaneously. It is the responsibility of the sender
37、to ensure that the amount of captioning data that is sent to the ATSC (MPEG) encoder does not exceed the channel capacity allocated in A/53. The behavior of the ATSC encoder in the case of too much captioning data is not specified. No flow control is used or supported. If there is no data to send, i
38、t is most efficient to send no packets to the ATSC encoder. In accordance with the A/53 and CEA-708 standards, the ATSC encoder will use the cc_valid=0 method to maintain the captioning channel bandwidth in the case of underflow on this input. The format of the packets on this interface is as follow
39、s (where each field is an 8-bit byte): SOH TYPE COUNT Data_1 Data_n Check EOT where: SOH 0x01, ASCII Start-of-Header character TYPE ASCII 1 for NTSC field 1 ASCII 2 for NTSC field 2 ASCII A for ATVCC (see Note 1) COUNT Count of all packet bytes, including SOH and EOT Data_# Data bytes Check One-byte
40、 checksum that satisfies the following: the modulo-256 sum of all bytes in the packet, including the SOH and EOT, is zero EOT 0x04, ASCII End-of-Transmission character Each packet contains exactly one CEA-708 packet, or an even number of characters of CEA-608 closed caption data. Both field-1 and fi
41、eld-2 (XDS) 608 caption data are supported on this interface. The minimum value of COUNT is 5 (no actual data bytes), the maximum value is 135 (see Note 2). NOTES 1. In this protocol, the A refers to captions for DTV, originally known as ATV (advanced television). At the time of writing this Annex o
42、ne caption encoder manufacturer has implemented a variant of this protocol using a TYPE code D to indicate DTV captions. Designers of new equipment that will receive this interface signal are encouraged to support packets of either type A or D in order to accommodate the widest variety of fielded eq
43、uipment. 2. Maximum packet length accepted by receiving equipment is typically in the range of 128 to 150, with 135 bytes being the most interoperable value for current equipment at the time of writing this guideline. Longer packets may be used successfully in some systems but system implementers ar
44、e advised to check with the manufacturers that the maximum packet length that may be generated by the caption encoder is accepted by the ATSC (MPEG) encoder. RP 2007-2007 Page 7 of 7 pages Annex B (Informative) Bibliography ATSC A/65C, Program and System Information Protocol for Terrestrial Broadcast and Cable, Revision C SMPTE 333M-1999, Television DTV Closed-Caption Server to Encoder Interface
