Dolby Laboratories DP564 User Manual

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DP564 Multichannel Audio Decoder

Menus

4-3

If the selected input is receiving a valid Dolby

®

Digital signal, the display conveys

important information about the input stream and the decoding status, as shown in
Figure 4-3.

Dolby Digital
48kHz
Data Rate 448
Chan Mode 3/2L
00:00:00:00 29ND
PL EX
Preset 1 EB DH

Dialog

Level

-27

Figure 4-3 Main Status Menu with a Valid Dolby Digital Input

The main box displays the type of input, sample rate, data rate (in kbps), channel
mode, and timecode. Dialogue level displays in the upper right-hand corner.

Timecode information displays according to the option selected in the

Timecode

Display

menu. Timecode information continually updates with the input signal. In the

display mode shown here, the timecode display is hours

:

minutes

:

seconds

:

frames.

29

indicates the frame rate—in this case, 29.97 fps.

ND

indicates non-drop frame

status. In a drop-frame condition, those letters read

DF

, and semicolons separate the

timecode units: hours

;

minutes

;

seconds

;

frames. Other options for the timecode

information in the main status menu are the timestamp delay word, or blank.
Complete timecode information is always available in the

Timecode Status

menu.

If a preset is in use, the preset number and name display in the bottom left-hand
corner. On the right-hand side, any of the four abbreviations shown in Figure 4-3 may
appear—these indicate metadata parameters in the Dolby Digital stream. All four will
never appear together, as they do in Figure 4-3, because some of those bitstreams are
mutually exclusive. The abbreviations are:

PL

(indicating a 2/0 bitstream is flagged “Dolby Surround encoded”)

EX

(indicating a 5.1, 5.0, or 2/2 bitstream is flagged “Dolby Surround EX

encoded”)

EB

(indicating a bitstream includes extended bitstream information)

DH

(indicating a 2/0 bitstream is flagged as a pre-encoded Dolby Headphone

mix)

If there is a valid PCM signal, the display appears as shown in Figure 4-4.

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