Standards & Industry
Explore 335 curated video standards and industry specifications — codecs, container formats, and streaming specs on Awesome Video.
Subcategories
- Adaptive Streaming Standards
- Best Practices & Guidelines
- Closed Captioning & Subtitling Standards
- DRM & Content Protection Standards
- Industry Forums & Standards Bodies
- Specs & Standards
- Vendors & HDR
- Video Codec Specifications
Resources
- Dashif Content Protection ListA list of content protection schemes recognized by the DASH Industry Forum for securing DASH streaming content.
- Diving into the Depths of Widevine L3 (Neodyme)Deep security research write-up on Widevine L3 CDM internals: Frida hooking and Qiling/Unicorn emulation of OEMCrypto whitebox cryptography.
- EME HDCP Version RegistryW3C companion registry defining HDCP policy strings used with EME's getStatusForPolicy() method.
- ETSI TS 103 799 — CPIX Publicly Available SpecificationCPIX published as a formal ETSI standard, giving a normative citation for key/DRM information exchange between packagers and key servers.
- Encrypted MediaW3C specification for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API enabling playback of protected content in web browsers.
- Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) — W3C Working DraftOfficial W3C spec for EME, the browser API for DRM-protected playback control (MediaKeys, encryptionScheme detection, getStatusForPolicy).
- Formal Security Analysis of Widevine through the W3C EME Standard (USENIX Security '24)Peer-reviewed TAMARIN formal model of the EME + Widevine license protocol across CDM versions 3.1.0–16.1.0, identifying protocol-level weak…
- HDCP Specifications IndexOfficial hub for all HDCP specification variants (HDMI, DisplayPort, HDBaseT, WHDI) plus errata, from the licensing authority.
- HDCP on HDMI Specification Rev 2.3Official Digital Content Protection LLC specification covering HDCP authentication, revocation, and encryption over HDMI.
- HbbTV Reference ApplicationMIT-licensed reference DASH player with PlayReady/Marlin/ClearKey test material including cbcs streams, from the official HbbTV Association.
- MPEG-B Part 7: Common Encryption (CENC) overviewMPEG's own free overview page for ISO/IEC 23001-7 Common Encryption, explaining cenc/cbc1/cens/cbcs schemes.
- MovieLabs Specification for Enhanced Content Protection v1.4The studio-mandated security target for premium content: hardware root of trust, secure media pipeline, forensic watermarking, sample-varia…
- PlayReady — Content Encryption Modes (official docs)Official Microsoft doc detailing PlayReady's cenc/cbcs content encryption mode support.
- PlayReady — License and Policies (official docs)Official Microsoft technical documentation on PlayReady license/challenge flow, Compliance Rules, and XMR rights spec.
- W3C ISO CENC Stream Format for EMEInformative W3C document bridging CENC ISO-BMFF encryption to browser EME usage.
- dash-test-vectorsDASH manifest variants over the same CENC-encrypted segments, illustrating DRM-agnostic segment design.
- pymp4decryptPython CENC MP4 decrypter extending beardypig's parser with extra Common Encryption box support.
- AIMS Alliance (Alliance for IP Media Solutions)Industry alliance driving adoption of open IP standards (SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS) for professional media infrastructure interoperability.
- Awesome BroadcastingA curated list of amazingly awesome open source resources related to broadcast technologies
- CTA WAVE ProjectThe WAVE (Web Application Video Ecosystem) Project, hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, aims to improve how internet-deli…
- CTA WAVE Technical Working GroupLive issue tracker and spec repo showing real working-group deliberation on WAVE/HbbTV/ATSC interoperability.
- DVB ProjectDigital Video Broadcasting Project — industry consortium (ETSI/CENELEC/EBU) developing DVB-DASH and broadcast standards.
- Digital TV Group (DTG)UK broadcast industry body publishing the D-Book specification for Freeview/Freeview HD/FreeSat/YouView interoperability.
- EBU Evaluations of Multichannel Audio CodecsEBU technical document evaluating and comparing multichannel audio codec standards for broadcast and streaming applications.