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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 23001-5:2008
International Standard
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 23001-5:2008
Information technology — MPEG systems technologies — Part 5: Bitstream Syntax Description Language (BSDL)
Edition 1
2008-02
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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 23001-5:2008
50094
Published (Edition 1, 2008)
This publication was last reviewed and confirmed in 2018. Therefore this version remains current.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 23001-5:2008

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 23001-5:2008
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Abstract

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 23001-5:2008 specifies BSDL (Bitstream Syntax Description Language), a language based on W3C XML Schema to describe the structure of a bitstream with an XML document named BS Description.

BSDL provides a normative grammar to describe in XML the high-level syntax of a bitstream; the resulting XML document is called a Bitstream Syntax Description (BS Description, BSD). This description is not meant to replace the original binary format, but acts as an additional layer, similar to metadata. In most cases, it will not describe the bitstream on a bit-per-bit basis, but rather address its high-level structure, e.g., how the bitstream is organized in layers or packets of data. Furthermore, the BS Description is itself scalable, which means it may describe the bitstream at different syntactic layers, e.g., finer or coarser levels of detail, depending on the application.

This language was initially developed in the context of Digital Item Adaptation (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 21000-7) as a generic tool for adapting scalable multimedia content. However, its use is not restricted to adaptation and may be relevant for any application parsing a bitstream. This is why Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 23001-5:2008 extracts the BSDL specification from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±/IEC 21000-7 to make it available to other contexts.

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