DDP14 - Multi stream Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus encoder
Description
Dolby Laboratories, with Dolby Digital Plus, is targeting at the next generation of digital transmission and optical formats. The advantage of Dolby Digital Plus is a channel count of up to 7.1 (13.1 in the future) and bit rates of about 50 percent of normal Dolby Digital.
An important application is the transcoding of normal Dolby Digital to Dolby Digital plus for cable head-ends. This gives a data rate reduction of 50% for the audio path. The DDP84 includes a Dolby E decoder. This enables the decoding of Dolby E and encoding that into Dolby Digital (plus) with only one Synapse card.
The calculation power of the DDP14/84 make a simultaneous encoding of 4 individual stereo channels (languages) to 4 Dolby Digital (Plus) 2.0 streams possible.
Features
The DDP14 and DDP84 are stand alone Dolby Digital (Plus) and/or Pulse encoders. They will support the following encoding algorithms:
- Up to 4 times 2.0 Dolby Digital (Plus)
- 5.1 Dolby Digital (Plus) + 2.0 Dolby Digital (Plus)
- Dolby Pro Logic II
- Individual offset delay per input
- Individual gain control per input (except bitstream input)
- Able to handle all AES/EBU input formats
- Full audio channel shuffling
- Ability to use the Synapse ADD-ON bus for in- and output purposes.
- Locks to Black & Burst, AES input or Mastercard
- Full control and status monitoring through the front panel of the SFR04/SFR08/SFR18 frame and the Ethernet port (ACP)
