ETSI
Table 2: System interfaces
Transmit station Input MPEG [1, 4] Transport Stream
(see note 1)
from MPEG multiplexer Single or multiple
Transmit station Input (see
note 2)
Generic Stream From data sources Single or multiple
Transmit station Input (see
note 3)
ACM command From rate control unit Single
Transmit station Output 70/140 MHz IF, L-band IF,RF
(see note 4)
to RF devices Single or multiple
Transmit station Input Mode Adaptation from Mode Adaptation
block
Single
NOTE 1: For interoperability reasons, the Asynchronous Serial Interface (ASI) with 188 bytes format, data burst
mode (bytes regularly spread over time) is recommended.
NOTE 2: For data services.
NOTE 3: For ACM only. Allows external setting of the ACM transmission mode.
NOTE 4: IF shall be higher than twice the symbol rate.
The input interface subsystem shall map the input electrical format into internal logical-bit format. The first received bit
will be indicated as the Most Significant Bit (MSB).
A Transport Stream shall be characterized by User Packets (UP) of constant length UPL = 188 × 8 bits (one MPEG
packet), the first byte being a Sync-byte (47
HEX
).
A Generic Stream shall be characterized by a continuous bit-stream or a stream of constant-length User Packets (UP),
with length UPL bits (maximum UPL value 64 K, UPL = 0
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means continuous stream, see clause 5.1.5). A variable
length packet stream, or a constant length packet exceeding 64 kbit, shall be treated as a continuous stream.
For Generic packetized streams, if a synch-byte is the first byte of the UP, it shall be left unchanged, otherwise a
sync-byte = 0
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shall be inserted before each packet, and UPL shall be increased by eight. UPL information may be
derived by static modulator setting.
"ACM Command" signalling input shall allow setting, by an external "transmission mode control unit", of the
transmission parameters to be adopted by the DVB-S2 modulator, for a specific portion of input data. ACM command
shall be according to clause D.1.
Mode Adaptation (optional input) shall be a sequence of Data Fields (according to clause 5.1.5), where each individual
Data Field is preceded by a BBHEADER, according to clause 5.1.6 and to figure 3, and Stream Adaptation Command,
according to clause I.1, to allow setting, by an external 3mode adaptation unit", of the transmission parameters to be
adopted by the DVB-S2 modulator, for each specific MA Packet. Mode Adaptation shall be according to clause I.1
(separate signalling circuit) or I.2 (in-band signalling).
5.1.2 Input stream synchronizer (optional, not relevant for single TS - BS)
Data processing in the DVB-S2 modulator may produce variable transmission delay on the user information. The Input
Stream Synchronizer subsystem (optional) shall provide suitable means to guarantee Constant-Bit-Rate (CBR) and
constant end-to-end transmission delay for packetized input streams (e.g. for Transport Streams). This process shall
follow the specification given in annex D. Examples of receiver implementation are given in annex G.
5.1.3 Null-Packet Deletion (ACM and Transport Stream only)
For ACM modes and Transport Stream input data format, MPEG null-packets shall be identified (PID = 8191
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) and
removed. This allows to reduce the information rate and increase the error protection in the modulator. The process is
carried-out in a way that the removed null-packets can be re-inserted in the receiver in the exact place where they
originally were. This process shall follow the specification given in annex D.