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
- FOSDEM 2023: 4K HDR Video with AV1 — A Reality CheckFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk covering HDR encoder challenges and signal-conformance/evaluation testing strategies for AV1+HDR content.
- Frequently Asked Questions on High Dynamic Range and Hybrid Log-GammaBBC R&D guide answering common questions about HDR and HLG technology. Technical reference for HDR implementation.
- HDR ToolboxMATLAB/Octave toolbox with a broad collection of tone mapping operators (Reinhard, Durand, Mertens, etc.), widely cited in academia.
- HbbTV: Standards in the UHD Streaming BackendHbbTV webinar deck on signalling HLG10, PQ10 and dynamic-metadata HDR in CMAF, DASH and HLS backends for UHD services.
- ITU-R BT.2100-3 — Image Parameter Values for HDR-TVLatest (Feb 2025) official ITU-R recommendation defining PQ and HLG transfer functions and HDR-TV image parameters for production/exchange.
- ITU-R BT.2408-9 — Operational practices for HDR television production2026 edition of the ITU report giving practical guidance for HDR production with PQ and HLG, including reference levels and SDR/HDR convers…
- Netflix Dolby Vision HDR Mastering GuidelinesOfficial Netflix delivery specification for Dolby Vision mastering, covering DV 4.0/2.9 profile requirements and IMF packaging.
- PQ and HLG Transfer Functions for HDR (Venera Technologies)QC-vendor explainer on scene-referred HLG vs display-referred PQ transfer functions, tone-mapping implications, and correct signalling in d…
- Report ITU-R BT.2408-5 — Operational Practices for HDR TV ProductionOfficial ITU-R guidance report on HDR TV production operational practices: gamma/exposure handling, best-practice workflows.
- Subjective Comparison of Three Tone Mapping Algorithms for HDR-to-SDR2025 peer-reviewed paper comparing clip, Reinhard, and Hable-class tone mapping operators for HDR-to-SDR conversion.
- Unsupervised HDR Tone Mapping via Contrastive LearningTCSVT 2023 academic paper with code (UnCLTMO) on unsupervised video HDR tone mapping with temporal consistency.
- awesome-deep-hdrCurated list of deep-learning HDR imaging papers with accompanying code implementations.
- tonemaplibPython library for video-focused HDR tone mapping, including a Reinhard02 implementation.
- 608toVTT Conversion NoteW3C technical note on best practices for converting CEA-608/708 caption features into WebVTT.
- ADM-OSC — ADM object metadata over OSCOpen spec and tools mapping ADM (Audio Definition Model) object metadata onto OSC for live/broadcast immersive audio interop.
- Demuxed Podcast Ep.3: Accessibility for the FutureDemuxed podcast episode discussing captioning, screen-reader support, and accessibility standards with an SSB BART Group accessibility lead.
- EBU Tech 3350: EBU-TT Part 1 Subtitling Format DefinitionEBU's archive/interchange subtitling format definition, sibling spec to EBU-TT-D.
- EBU Tech 3380: EBU-TT-D SpecificationOfficial EBU technical specification document for EBU-TT-D subtitle/caption distribution format.
- EBU Tech 3380: EBU-TT-D Subtitling Distribution FormatEBU's TTML-based subtitling distribution format spec designed for DASH/OTT delivery.
- EBU-TT-D XSDOfficial EBU-TT-D XML Schema, validates against EBU Tech 3380 subtitle standard.
- EBU-TT-D and IMSC1 Convergence (IBC2015)EBU/W3C technical paper documenting the convergence of EBU-TT-D and IMSC1 subtitle standards.
- ETSI EN 300 743: DVB Subtitling SystemsOfficial DVB bitmap subtitling standard covering region/CLUT/object composition for broadcast PES-based subtitle delivery.
- FAB ESUB-XF Specification (EBU-STL Successor)European Subtitle Exchange Format spec mapping legacy EBU-STL (Tech 3264) into XML.
- FCC Closed Captioning Rules for TelevisionFCC guide to the four 47 CFR §79.1 caption quality standards — accurate, synchronous, complete and properly placed — plus exemptions and co…