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ES9600 User Guide Appendix B: Encoding Guidelines
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Audio Encoding Guidelines
The ES9600 supports Broadcast Audio WAVE files with the following properties:
Sample rate 48 kHz
Sample width 16, 24 or 32 bit
Channel count 2, 8 or 16 channel
Audio streams must conform to the following restrictions:
 The edit rate of the audio shall match the edit rate of the video.
 The audio stream shall be aligned to a full video frame boundary.
 The audio stream shall be the same duration as the Reel’s associated video.
Composition Playlist Guidelines
Composition Playlists must conform to SMPTE 429-7-2006 with the following additional restrictions:
 All Reels of a Composition Playlist must be of the identical audio/video format.
Video assets must have the same chroma subsampling, colorspace, frame rate and resolution.
All audio assets must have the same bit width and number of audio channels. Reels of a Clip may have
no associated audio assets.
 Digital signatures are not supported.
 The following XML nodes and their children are ignored:
o <Signer>
o <{http://www.w3.or/2000/09/xmldsig}Signature>
The ES9600 handles JPEG-2000 content encoded in colorspaces other than CIE 1931 XYZ defined by DCI. The
colorspace of the encoded video essence is specified through a custom XML tag, <EsColorspace> attached to a
Reel’s <MainPicture> node. An example is Reel is shown in the following XML snippet.
<Reel>
<AssetList>
<MainPicture>
….
<EsColorspace>Colorspace String</EsColorspace>
….
</MainPicture>
</AssetList>
</Reel>
Supported colorspace strings are listed in the following table.