Standards: Appendix L - SMPTE ST Standards Related To ST 2110
ST 2110 does not stand in isolation but relies on many other related SMPTE standards.
This is an Appendix to our series of articles on Standards.
There are several types of documents available from SMPTE:
• OV - Overview documents.
• ST - Published standards.
• RP - Recommended Practices that may be published as standards when they have been fully ratified.
• RDD - Registered Disclosure Documents are published by an organisation to document a proprietary protocol. Often these are de-facto standards. They might be subject to registration or licensing arrangements.
• EG - Engineering Guidelines that might become RP or ST documents later on.
SMPTE also publishes quarterly reports covering the most recent activity. These contain interesting notes about as yet unpublished standards documents.
Here is a list of the SMPTE standards released as parts of ST 2110 and the other related ST documents that support them. Refer to the SMPTE document repository for a complete list of their standards:
| Document | Description | Latest |
|---|---|---|
| ST 125 | SDTV Component Video Signal Coding 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 for 13.5 MHz and 18 MHz Systems. | 2013 |
| RP 214 | Packing KLV Encoded Metadata and Data into SMPTE ST 291M Ancillary Data Packets. | 2002 |
| RP 223 | Packing UMID and Program Identification Label Data into SMPTE ST 291M Ancillary Data Packets. | 2003 |
| ST 291-1 | Ancillary Data Packet and Space Formatting. Used by ST 2110-40. See also ST 2038. | 2011 |
| RP 291-2 | Ancillary Data — 4:2:2 SDTV and HDTV Component Systems and 4:2:2 2048 ×1080 Production Image Formats. Used by ST 2110-40. See also ST 2038. | 2013 |
| ST 302 | Mapping of AES-3 Data into an MPEG-2 Transport Stream. | 2007 |
| ST 337 | AES-3 packaging description. | 2015 |
| ST 338 | AES-3 payload data types for ST 2110-31. | 2016 + 2019 amd |
| ST 352 | Payload Identification Codes for Serial Digital Interfaces (used by ST 2110-40) | 2013 |
| ST 2022-1 | Forward Error Correction for Real-Time Video/Audio Transport Over IP Networks. | 2007 |
| ST 2022-2 | Unidirectional Transport of Constant Bit-Rate MPEG-2 Transport Streams on IP Networks. | 2007 |
| ST 2022-3 | Unidirectional Transport of Variable Bit-Rate MPEG-2 Transport Streams on IP Networks. | 2019 |
| ST 2022-4 | Unidirectional Transport of Non-Piecewise Constant Variable Bit-Rate MPEG-2 Streams on IP Networks. | 2011 |
| ST 2022-5 | Forward Error Correction for Transport of High Bit-Rate Media Signals over IP Networks (HBRMT). | 2013 |
| ST 2022-6 | Transport of High Bit-Rate Media Signals over IP Networks (HBRMT). See VSF TR-04. | 2012 |
| ST 2022-7 | Seamless Protection Switching of RTP Datagrams. | 2019 |
| ST 2022-8 | Timing of ST 2022-6 Streams in ST 2110-10 Systems. | 2019 |
| ST 2038 | Carriage of Ancillary Data Packets in an MPEG-2 Transport Stream. See ST 291. | 2021 |
| ST 2042-1 | VC-2 Video Compression. | 2022 |
| ST 2042-2 | VC-2 Level Definitions. | 2017 |
| RP 2042-3 | VC-2 Conformance Specification. | 2022 |
| ST 2042-4 | Mapping a VC-2 Stream into the MXF Generic Container. | 2018 |
| ST 2059-1 | Generation and Alignment of Interface Signals to the SMPTE Epoch This may be patent encumbered. | 2021 |
| ST 2059-2 | SMPTE Profile for Use of IEEE-1588 Precision Time Protocol in Professional Broadcast Applications. This may be patent encumbered. | 2021 |
| EG 2059-10 | Introduction to the New Synchronization System (SMPTE ST 2059). | 2023 |
| RP 2059-15 | YANG Data Model for ST 2059-2 PTP Device Monitoring in Professional Broadcast Applications. | 2023 |
| ST 2109 | Format for Non-PCM Audio and Data in AES-3 — Audio Metadata. | 2019 |
| OV 2110-0 | An overview of ST 2110. | 2018 |
| ST 2110-10 | System Timing and Definitions. | 2022 |
| ST 2110-20 | Uncompressed Active Video. | 2022 |
| ST 2110-21 | Traffic Shaping and Network Delivery Timing. | 2022 |
| ST 2110-22 | Constant Bit-Rate Compressed Video. | 2022 |
| RP 2110-23 | Single Video Transport split over Multiple ST 2110-20 links. | 2019 |
| RP 2110-24 | Special Considerations for Standard Definition Video Using SMPTE ST 2110-20. | 2023 |
| RP 2110-25 | Measurement Practices. | 2023 |
| ST 2110-30 | AES-67 PCM Digital Audio transport. | 2017 |
| ST 2110-31 | AES-3 transparent transport. | 2022 |
| ST 2110-40 | ST 291-1 SDI Ancillary Data transport. | 2023 |
| ST 2110-41 | FMX - Extensible Fast Metadata Transport. | In progress |
| ST 2110-42 | FMX - Extensible Fast Metadata Formatting. | In progress |
| ST 2110-43 | Timed Text Mark-up Language for Captions and Subtitles. | 2021 |
| ST 2110-50 | This is an older part of ST 2110 that has been assimilated into part 10. | Deprecated |
| RDD 34 | Sony LLVC compression codec functional description. | 2015 |
| RDD 35 | IntoPIX TICO compression bitstream description. | 2016 |
VC-2 is also known as Dirac and is designed as a royalty free codec.
Note that SMPTE has advised that there are some typographical errors in the 2023 edition of the ST 2110-40 document.
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