Dolby Laboratories DP600 DP600 Program Optimizer Detailed Profile Descriptions

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Appendix B

DP600 Program Optimizer

ADP600profiledefinesasetofactionsandprocessesonaspecifictypeofsourcefile,

whichincludesspecificactionsonanyorallaudiodatatypesandtheconfigurations

containedwithinthem(ifapplicable).

FollowingaresomeimportantpointstorememberregardingDP600profiles:

1. TheDP600profilesandprocessesalwaysexpectandarecapableofproviding

multichannel.wavfilesthatarerestrictedtothefollowingchannelorderwithinthe

file:Left,Right,Center,LFE,LeftSurround,RightSurroundperSMPTE320MTable2.

(Failuretoadheretothisruleresultsinunintendedbehavior.)

2. AllDP600profilesandprocessesthatexpectand/orprovidemultichannelor

multiprogramaudiomustbecontainedinasinglefile(thatis,allchannelsare

interleaved).Forthisreason,theDP600doesnotsupportdiscrete(mono)inputfiles

that(together)compriseacompletemultichannelaudioprogram.

3. ForanyDP600profilesthatexpectaPCM.wavsourcefile,theDolby®metadata

chunk1isoptional.Incaseswherethemetadatachunkisnotpresent,theDP600

processesutilizeadefaultsetofmetadataparameters,exceptwherenotedinthe

profiledescriptionsprovidedonthefollowingpagesinthisappendix.Forthisreason,

theDolbymetadatachunkisrequiredtoobtainfullcontroloverany/allDolby

metadataparameters(onafile‐by‐filebasis).

4. Alldecoder‐relatedprofilesthatoutputPCM.wavfilesdefaultto16‐bitsampledepths

(unlessnotedotherwise),exceptforDolbyEdecoding,whichdefaultsto24‐bit

sampledepths.

5. Unlessotherwisenoted,manyfilesprocessedbytheDP600(thatis,theoutputfiles)

containthetextstring-corrected,whichisappendedtotheinputfilename.For

example,asourcefilenamesuchasDP600_test.mpgresultsinaprocessedfilenamed

DP600_test-corrected.mpginyourdestinationdirectory.

Note: DP600profileinformationisupdatedperiodically.Forthelatestinformationon

DP600profiles,pleasegototheDP600areaonwww.dolbysupport.com.

1TheDolbymetadatachunkspecificationisavailableuponrequest.