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Dolby DP580 Professional Reference Decoder
The Dolby DP580 Professional Reference Decoder is a key element of Dolby’s industry leading object-based
audio authoring toolkit that assists broadcasters, live audio mixers and engineers in the adoption and
deployment of immersive audio for live events.
Dolby’s object-based audio (OBA) authoring toolkit for broadcast applications consists of the DP590 Broadcast Audio
Object Authoring tool (DP590); the DP591 Audio Encoder (DP591) and the DP580 Professional Reference Decoder (DP580).
This toolkit provides the ability to do immersive audio authoring, encoding, and monitoring.
As part of this toolkit, the DP580, which supports all Dolby Audio codecs, provides real-time decoding and assists
broadcasters and manufacturers in the adoption and deployment of the family of Dolby audio codecs including
Dolby Digital Plus™, Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos, Dolby E, and Dolby ED2. It is designed to help broadcasters
monitor streams along multiple points of the broadcast chain. The DP580 provides a detailed analysis of Dolby Atmos
immersive audio streams for professionals, making it ideal for broadcast trials and manufacturers’ test environments.
Enhanced features of Dolby Digital Plus, such as secondary audio bitstream mixing and 5.1-channel decoding, can easily
be monitored using the DP580. All of these features enable consumer and professional device manufacturers to use the
DP580 to test the integration of Dolby technologies in their products.
The DP580 is a real time audio decoder that allows broadcasters to monitor the contribution and transmission of Dolby
Atmos content at any point in the workflow, as shown in the following diagram. In the outside broadcast truck, the DP580
can ingest PCM and ED2 content over SDI and render the audio and video over its outputs for monitoring purposes and in the
head-end, the DP580 will allow monitoring of PCM, DD, DD+ and DD+ Atmos content over its IP, SDI, AES and HDMI input.
Dolby DP580 Professional Reference Decoder—March 1st, 2017
Simplified Live Production Workflow
Home
STB
OB truck Transmission
Audio Console
DP591
Object Audio
Encoding
(ED2)
DP580
Object Audio
Monitoring
(DD + JOC)
DP590
Object Audio
Authoring
Transmission
Encoder
DP591
Object Audio
Encoding
(DD + JOC)
Monitoring Metadata
DP580
Object Audio
Monitoring
(ED2)
Contribution
Encoder
Contribution
Decoder
Fiber or Satellite
Simplified Live Production Workflow
Home
STB
OB truck Transmission
Audio Console
DP591
Object Audio
Encoding
(ED2)
DP580
Object Audio
Monitoring
(DD + JOC)
DP590
Object Audio
Authoring
Transmission
Encoder
DP591
Object Audio
Encoding
(DD + JOC)
Monitoring Metadata
DP580
Object Audio
Monitoring
(ED2)
Contribution
Encoder
Contribution
Decoder
Fiber or Satellite