scope:

This American National Standard specifies the transport of digital Audio and Video formats over Fibre Channel.

Specifications are included for:

a) a coherent framework (i.e., an FC-AV Container and Objects) for mapping current and future digital Audio and Video formats to Fibre Channel;

b) mapping the formats defined by the ITU-R BT-601 and SMPTE family of standards to Fibre Channel;

c) mapping the formats defined by the ISO/IEC 13818 family of standards (which include MPEG and related compression systems) to Fibre Channel;

d) a profile (i.e., Simple Parametric Digital Video) that parametrically defines the characteristics of Audio and Video information for specific applications; and,

e) data packing guidelines recommended for AV data within the Fibre Channel transmission words.