IEC 62379 Common Control Interface

IEC 62379

Common Control Interface
for
networked audio and video equipment

The transition from a world in which audiovisual equipment is connected by a rat's nest of cables carrying analogue signals to one in which everything is connected to a digital network has been inhibited by the lack of standards that make it easy to configure and control the resulting system.

IEC Project Team 62379 is developing a set of standards to fill this gap.

The Common Control Interface provides a standard means to control not only transmission across the network but also other functions within the equipment such as volume, programme selection, and play/pause.

Key features include:

a consistent interface to the functionality in an audiovisual unit
providing the means for equipment to discover what units are connected to the network and what their capabilities are
defining small focused building blocks from which more complex functionality can be built in a consistent and structured way
ensuring new functionality can be developed and integrated consistently and easily into the framework

A common format for audio and video being conveyed across the network is also specified, to avoid situations in which two pieces of equipment fail to communicate because there is no format which both support.

Equipment may, of course, also support other formats appropriate to particular applications, and the standard mechanisms for initiating and terminating communication will work for those formats in the same way as for the standard formats.

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