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ATSC T3/S8

    dtv: [netID] / TSID / [ svcID [ / part [ / eventID ] [ ; file ]]]]
    atsc: sourceID [ / part [ / eventID ] [ ; file ]]]


    netID:       needed only if TSIDs not unique (DVB)        
    TSID:        MPEG-2 Transport Stream ID
    svcID:       MPEG-2 program number
    sourceID:    from VCT (Virtual Channel Table)
    part:        entire service, elementary stream, carousel, component tag

DAVIC

    dvb://<server>/<dir>/.../<file>


    <server> =   <original-network-id>.<transport-stream-id>
                    [.<service-id>
                    [.<component-tag>]
                    [;<event-id]]

    original-network-id:  assigned by DVB (ETR 162)
    transport-stream-id:  assigned by service provider
    service-id:           assigned by service provider

MPEG-4

From: MPEG-4 Part 6: Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework (DMIF), WD 1.0 (July 1997).

    <protocol>://<physical address>/<serviceId>


    <protocol> =    dmif-ip      |        // IP network
                    dmif-nsap    |        // non-IP network
                    dmif-broadcast-ip |   // IP-based broadcast
                    dmif-carousel     |   // MPEG2 broadcast
                    dmif-file         |   // local storage

TVML

From: TVML 2.0 Specification: Delivering and Integrating Data with TV (WebTV and Microsoft, Draft Version 0.9, Oct. 17, 1997).

    tv:<broadcast>


    <broadcast> =        <channel-number>       |
                         <network-identifier>   |
                         <call-sign>

    <channel-number>     = 1*digit    
    <network-identifier> = 1*[ alpha | digit]    
    <call-sign>          = 1*[ alpha | digit]    

IETF

From: Uniform Resource Locators for Television Broadcasts, IETF Internet Draft, June 1997.

• same as TVML
• see http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-zigmond-tv-url-00.txt

Philips

From: Opportunities for Migration of Internet and Digital TV Applications, Jan van der Meer, Philips.

• appeared as W3C workshop paper
• see http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper27/paper27.html

    dvb://canal-plus/original-network-id.program-id.video-id/...
    dss://direcTV/...
    ATSC://...
    NTSC-60Hz://...
    PAL-50Hz://BBC/...
    PAL-vbi://...

    ...[date/start-time/end-time]...