A Method for Teletext Display

Abstract

During these years, the population of Chinese cable TV consumers is increasing quickly. There are over thirty TV stations providing teletext service. At the same time, there are new requirements to teletext. This paper introduces the teletext standard of ETS300706 and it's display method on the OSD without VBI module. Teletext data extraction from MPEGII stream and data decoding in the set-top box are focused in this paper. A new method is used to cache packets quickly and display pages steadily on the OSD. The experiment shows that how the customers select their favorite page to watch from teletext screen