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Appendix B
DP600 Program Optimizer
Detailed Profile Descriptions
B.1 Understanding DP600 Profiles
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(single‐channel
monophonic)inputfilesthat(together)compriseacompletemultichannelaudio
program.However,theDP600doessupportsingle‐channelmonophonic
.wavor.aiff
filesthatdorepresentacompleteaudioprogram.
3. ForanyDP600profilesthatexpectaPCM
.wavsourcefile,theDolby
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metadata
chunk
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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or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inpu t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.
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TheDolbymetadatachunkspecificationisavailableuponrequest.